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Coming up on DT NS secret airwaves that could make your phone's connection faster, use your voice to keep people from stealing your wheels and what could ruin Apple's good, q1 news. This is the daily tech news for Wednesday, January 29th 2020 in Los, Angeles, I'm, Tom Merritt, and from Studio redwood I'm, Sarah, Lane, Salt, Lake, City Utah has me Scott Johnson in it, and I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We were just talking about sweetened drinks. We were talking about the coronavirus and so much more on good day Internet. You got to get that by becoming a member at patreon. com, slash, DT NS.

Let's start with a view, tech things you should know: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, will meet with EU officials next month to address antitrust and privacy concerns over how the company is handling user data. Facebook said in a statement that Zuckerberg will meet with quotes European decision makers in Brussels to discuss a framework for our new rules and regulation for the Internet. The European Commission is expected to overhaul liability rules for platforms with a proposal slated for the end of this year. Samsung announced a 5g version of its Galaxy Tab s, six set to go on sale in South Korea on Thursday for 999,999. One thing right, so I'm not gonna even try.850 bucks is what you need to know. Folks Samsung did not say when the device would be launched in other markets.

Those who buy the tablet by March 31st, however, will get a free Samsung book cover keyboard. The Galaxy Tab s65 G has the same Qualcomm Snapdragon, 855 processors, and of the 4G and Wi-Fi only versions, but only uses the Snapdragon X 55 G modem. The tablet is a single configuration with six gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage. Google announced it paid out of more than 21 million dollars since launching its bug bounty program in November 2010. This past year it paid 6.5 million dollars to 461 different security. Researchers.800,000 dollars went for Google Play, bugs a million dollars for Chrome bugs 1.9 million for Android and 2.1 million across other Google products. In 2019, the biggest single reward was 201 thousand dollars, that's up from 41 thousand dollars in 2018, also just coming in right as we're recording the show cloud services, company Microsoft, reported revenue up 14% on the year net income up 38% on the air and earnings per share of a buck.51. All of that beat expectations.

Earnings were only expected to be a dollar 32 digging down office, 365 commercial revenue grew 27%, Asher, grew 62% office, consumer products and cloud services. That's the stuff you and I are more likely to use, grew by 19% and Dynamics.365 grew 42%, LinkedIn also grew 24%. Microsoft also does some non cloud stuff you might have heard of surface revenue grew in the single digits and Xbox digital products fell 11% on the air. Alright, we'll talk a little more about Microsoft's earnings on tomorrow's show, once we have a little more clarity around all those numbers. But let's talk now about some spectrum.

Well, let's do Monday the US Federal Communications Commission approved four companies, including Google and Sony, to become spectrum access system, administrators of the 3.5 gigahertz spectrum. The companies will prevent interference among users. Existing users, including the US Navy, got priority. You know military, you know followed by companies that by rights at auction bottom priority goes to free use by open access users, the frequency and the spectrum can deliver LTE at faster speeds and let 5g service reach further than millimeter wave frequencies. The spectrum is already used in Japan and Europe, so phones can already access that yeah.

This is the area around the 3.5. Gigahertz spectrum had been reserved for use by some smaller companies and the Navy, the Navy being the big one, and the FCC for a couple of years now is trying to try to figure out how they could take some empty parts of this spectrum that aren't used by anyone and make them available and what they hit on was that spectrum access system administrator that you were talking about, so they have four companies on board to administer. That's all they do, and you can use it for free half. The spectrum is available for no charge. Now that makes you bottom priority.

When and when I say priority, it doesn't mean priority of your bits or your packets. It means that if the administrator sees that there might be some inner appearance, it's going to prioritize the Navy and the existing users first, and you'll get knocked out of that that area of the spectrum, but the Navy isn't using all the spectrum, so there'll be large areas here that you should be able to use pretty, consistently and reliably and for that mobile carriers may just triad out. The phones already have the chips to be able to access this. It doesn't cost them anything except the infrastructure to broadcast in that spectrum. They don't have to pay for a license, even though they get bottom priority.

There's enough spectrum out there they'll probably try it out for nothing and then, if it looks like hey we're, actually you know delivering some high-speed LTE, or it makes our 5g rollout easier. They might be willing to go in on that spectrum auction, which will happen. Probably this June, just like the old days when they do mid-auction up this stuff for broadcasters. Well that we's not like. That's my point: is it's not like the old days because you could just go use it now, for nothing right and the spectrum auction is more traditional, but you don't have to get the spectrum to use it.

You have to get the spectrum if you want to make sure that you're prioritized above people that aren't paying, but you're still not going to be prioritized above the Navy, but there's a lot of spectrum out there. So it's a very interesting low-risk way for these carriers to jump in this and start providing faster LTE to the phone. You already have, and possibly some better 5g as well. Well, moving on nothing says: Google like a good messaging service. I'm saying the information sources say that Google may unify its existing communication services messaging being part of that into a workplace oriented app to compete with the likes of slack and Microsoft Teams.

The unified app is said to include Gmail messaging and the companies to hang out apps. That's Hangouts chat and hangouts meet Plus, also drive access, so teams could share content, photos and files and stuff like that more easily and all be offered as part of G Suites. Well, what took them so fricking long is what I'm saying yeah like having all this stuff being so disparate from each other and also having them being in sort of weird pattern of we don't know when this is going to be updated. You don't know if this thing's still sort of works or not. Does it do they even care about this version of hangouts versus this version of hangouts like this is.

This is good I think like let's get that stuff consolidated, fine, that's good! If it works, and we've you know, we've seen messaging apps from Google fail, left and right, and you know the Hangout situation. Just the fact that there are two different apps is donen't even get me started on that, but I'm we're all we're all big slack users we use it. We talked about this on the show this week, how we use it, particularly in remote environments, but there are other options if, if Google could come up with something slack like that, was comparable or better I'm in Google Drive all day every day for lots of other things: I'm Google's, my email, clients, I, use Gmail in various accounts during the day so to have it all, be one ecosystem that worked better I'd love to see what that looks like, and I like the idea of it, but I'm skeptical, well: everybody's skeptical of Google and the word messaging in the same breath, because there are nine different Google messaging apps, there's talk, Voice buzz, plus messenger, hangout spaces, ALO chat and messages. Not all of those still exist, of course, but this is a good idea. It's taking.

Instead of adding a chat, it's saying, let's integrate chats together to make a slack like thing and put in email. That's compelling! That's where this starts to be different from slack. If Gmail, which a lot of people are already in already because their enterprise uses G suite, or they just use, it themselves, suddenly is available easily in a messaging slack like environment I, think that's pretty compelling. Of course, it's all in the execution, but I think this is a better way for Google to go than to create a slack competitor, actually take things you already have and try to make them work together if they can make them work together. Well, yeah, and you're already you already sort of have leadership position and that email side, so there's no reason why you can't leverage that better I've always said this, and it's nice that they make it.

You know lots of API hook, ends to do things with Gmail and other apps other services, but to actually take advantage of that themselves. That could be the thing that would make me use it. I mean I. Just I would be more inclined to try this out sight unseen, knowing that my email was more integrated than if not so well folks, vehicles are getting harder and harder to steal, not impossible, but it's getting harder. So thieves have who always go for the easier more lucrative targets have started to target stealing car parts instead of a whole car, it's easier to take off wheel than it is to break into some cars and steal the whole car.

So people who pay for high quality parts like your alloy wheels, need to secure them with locking nuts that require a special key to loosen, but thieves are onto that. They can get a hold of keys that work they're, not all unique. So Ford is developing 3d printed, not locking nuts that are unique to the user. For just for you, software. It takes the sound wave of your voice and converts it into a printable pattern.

That pattern has turned into a circle in the design software and then used as the locking nuts indentation and key the nut, and the key are then 3d printed in acid and corrosion resistant stainless steel. So it's going to be hard to get through these things and the nuts are designed with gradually widening ribs and into stations, so that wax molds break. If you try to make a mold of it and we, you know, reverse engineer the key that would prevent a thief from making a copy of your individualistic key I. Don't think any of us actually have alloy wheels on our cars, but I'm fascinated with this idea of taking easy to make voiceprints, which all kind of just take that for granted, but that used to be hard to do to make it make a map of your voice and then using a 3d printer to print out the locking nuts to keep your wheels on your car I. Don't think my buddy Andrews listening to this, but if you are Andrew this is your dream come true.

He is a freak about this stuff, and he's even a bigger freak about somebody, stealing his rims all the time, and he would go to incredible lengths when he and I were hanging out more to park his car in places where he was sure he had a lesser chance of somebody eating his rims and that's all I could think about when you guys put this in the notes. I thought. Oh, my gosh Andrew. Finally, has a solution to his lifelong problem of keeping his rim safe, but so this does sound a lot safer for the owner for the driver of the car. But what do you have to do before you walk away and go into the restaurant and then aren't looking anymore? I mean it's okay, yeah you, you don't have to walk it.

Every time you park the car. This is just how the wheels are attached, so that nobody can come up and just undo the nuts and take off with your wheels. They would need York your key to actually the only time you'd need it is if you want to take the wheel off for some reason, so you'll probably have to give it to your mechanic, and they were so. They were so similar before that a thief might have like five in his pocket and I want to say how that worked. But it was yeah, they were not all unique, so it was easier to be able to find one that would work.

It's pretty cool, I, I, don't even know what an alloy wheel is, which means I, probably don't have one you're, probably better off they're, very expensive. All right. Let's talk about the Electronic Frontier Foundation, announcing that rings. Android app uses multiple embedded third-party trackers from branch, apps flyer mix panel and Facebook and Facebook's, and everything each app gets different data for an instance. A Facebook gets time zone, device, model, language, preference and screen resolution, as well as the app options open, close and lock due to inactivity, branch gets much of the same info as the device model and screen resolution, as well as IP address, and by contrast, apps flyer gets even more info, including wireless carrier info and data sensor.

Data like gyroscope and accelerometer data mix panel is the only one that actually gets usernames. Email addresses, along with other Drive info only mix panel, is on rings list of services to work with yeah, so they disclosed that they give info to mix panel. They didn't tell you they were giving them your email address and your name it could be worse, but that's that's annoying and these other three branch, Facebook and apps wire, where we're not getting we're not disclosed at all that they were giving this now, except for the email address in the name. None of this is considered personal information, so maybe that's why they disclosed next panel and not the others. This is just telemetry, but the problem.

The increasing problem with people being sensitive to this data being shared without their knowledge, is that this kind of data is what makes up a fingerprint and if you can take this data and compare it to other data you have which all three of these probably have other data from other sources about you. They can then start to build a profile of who you are and what you do. They don't generally share this information under you know, like ah we've figured out it's Scott Johnson, here's what he does, but they do share it under. Oh, we know 45 to 55-year-old, males in Utah that like video games and will be able to sell you the right to advertise them, because, because we have this information on them, yeah, and I know the e FF took particular issues, saying it: okay, the fact that you disclose in your privacy policy, which hasn't been updated in a couple of years, that you do share the sorts of information and did disclose Mix panel somewhat, not full details, of course, but not the other companies. It's like well I mean what that just makes it just makes ring.

Look bad yeah was it an oversight? Was it know? Is there something more nefarious going on here? It's like just, just lay it all out there, that's what they're for it's never nefarious and it almost never no fair. Yes, it's not that they were trying to reveal who you are somehow and steal your identity, but it's well do we. We don't need to tell people this, because what harm is going to come from it and if we did tell them they'd freak out well, if you're saying, if we did tell them they'd freak out, then you either don't do it or you tell people you're doing it, because over and over it will come out. People will figure it out those days of the 2000s where you could just suck up all this data and nobody would care or now those are over yeah. It just surprises me that we're still having these conversations, it seems like it's so on the minds of everybody.

This kind of security stuff is such a big deal that that's an oversight immediately like somebody in a room had to have heard this and went. Oh, maybe not, and they just didn't do anything about it again: I, don't think they're being the fair rationalize that is like. Oh no, this is standard stuff. Everybody collects this because in 2007 yeah everybody did right. Jodi hunt assistant attorney general for the US Justice Department Civil Division, announced the department's first-ever enforcement actions against two groups that facilitated hundreds of millions of robocalls each month the Justice Department is seeking court approval to stop the organizations from operating, which include two Arizona based companies, toll-free, deals.

com s, IP retail and their owner operators plus New York, defendants, global voice, comm global telecommunication services, cat telecom and their owner operator as well. The DOJ says that the companies serve gateways for fraudulent call operators, then get paid for facilitating the calls and passing them into the regular US telecommunications network using digital voice over IP technology. Please tell me: Jodi hunt called the people that they're bringing this action against with a recorded message. That says there is an enforcement action against you. Please call this number to resolve the action, or maybe maybe maybe Jodi left a voicemail, but half of it got cut off, and we just hear, like I repeat account number one to four, and then you're like okay.

Thank you. Thank you yeah. This is. This is good news. This is, this is I I I preached my hate of robocalls regularly on the show.

I know a lot of people feel the same way. I, don't know if if it, if I'm, just more bothered, or I'm, just more targeted, but I mean I am getting, I am not kidding. At least ten robocalls every single day, and sometimes they're happening in the middle of the night now, and they wake me up and mad and there's nothing you can do about it, because if you, it's rare at this point that you would actually have somebody, you know who's a human on the phone kind of thing. But if you get to that person, they just hang up on you. They don't care yeah.

All that means is oh, this. This numbers good mark. This is one that people will answer yeah exactly, and so it's just it's its so maddening, and I have I'm on Verizon and I have noticed that I'm, not all of them. In fact, it's a small portion of the total event of calls now say suspected spam, and- and so you know, when I see that I'm a guy I won't even bother but uh, but you know the thing with robocalls that that gets my goat. The most is they're they're, trying to trick you by knowing your area code and spoofing stuff for you Mike.

Maybe that's my mom who lives down the street type thing and I have missed calls that are important because I didn't recognize the number they're. Not in my contacts you know back, you know five years ago, wasn't a big deal. You know you thought you just pick up the phone and if we all kind of lamented like oh, no one calls each other anymore. Because everybody's got all these messaging services, and now it's its ruining phones and something must be done so good on you, Jodi hunt to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes be sure to subscribe to daily tech, headlines, comm. All right, as we mentioned on yesterday's show earnings for Apple we're good.

Ninety-one point: eight billion dollars of revenue. Well, above expectations, as we mentioned yesterday, earnings per share for ninety-nine. The expectation have been 450 for products brought in the lion's share of apples revenue as usual. Seventy-nine point, one billion dollars the iPhone had a record quarter. It bounced back.

If anybody was doubting the iPhone which some people were fifty-six billion dollars in iPhone revenue, Tim Cook highlighted that the company posted all-time records for services and wearables as well, and this is where people are looking more because iPhone is going to hit a saturation mark if it hasn't already, services is where Apple wants to go long-term and wearables, and accessories are in the interim, where it might be able to make up some of that hardware shortfall if it happens. Well, services revenue came in at twelve point: seven billion, that's up from ten point nine billion a year ago, but a little softer than some folks thought and Tim Cook said well, Apple, TV plus isn't bringing in revenue. Yet it's a lot of free trials out there wearables, however, came in at ten billion dollars higher than Mac at seven point two billion and higher than iPad. At six billion dollars, so significant watermark for your air pod, headphone, Apple Watch category, it's coming in strong and looking like it's doing what Apple wants to do so now that we already know what they did in q1, Ming QI quality of international securities is like. Let me tell you what my sources say: apples going to do for the first half of 2020, and it bears out that move into accessories and bolstering iPhones by trying to go into parts of the market that might not be buying iPhones.

Yet we're going to get ultra-wideband tags. Those are like the tile type tags that will let you find stuff, that's already built into the new iPhone 11. So there you go high-end. Wireless headphones, apparently doesn't say what kind but more headphones high in that 4.7 inch iPhone the bargain iPhone that that will be probably at a lower price, refreshed, iPad Pro refreshed, MacBook, Pro and or MacBook Air. That seems like yes, that's about time for a 13-inch MacBook and an iPad Pro we didn't get those last year and a small wireless charging mat remember they got rid of that mat.

That was going to charge. Everything so I'm curious, what kind of wireless charging that they might come out with so guys. This looks like for the first half of 2020. If Ming Chico is right, as he is often, we're going to see more wearables. How are you feeling about Apple over the next six months, but I know that Apple's well aware that the iPhone is bringing in the majority of revenue and has for some time- and there are certain product categories max iPads that I have sagged, but the services and the new categories, such as the accessories and smaller gadgets, for example, the Apple Watch are making ground, but the idea that Apple wants to diversify so that it doesn't have to depend on the iPhone so heavily, but just make another low-priced iPhone I mean that doesn't really solve the problem, but I see what the company's doing there I'm excited personally for a new MacBook Pro, because I kind of need it needs one anyway.

So I'm like, let's see what the refresh is like, but yeah I, don't know how much how many inroads the company is going to make. Even though there's a great quarter, great numbers companies very happy, I'm sure you know, how does this change this whole feel of well, okay, but why don't we have besides the iPhone? That's making us all our money, MMM! It's like Tom was saying this morning on this TMS segment. It's we haven't had a star product in a while like we haven't had that moment at Apple, where they come out and blow our minds with some hot new thing that ends up. You know pushing trends across the industry for a while we're sort of in this mode of like saturation point on phones and now, okay, cool. We got accessories and I think this is actually perfect because it, but it shows to me, is the Tim, Cook and company are figuring out ways to sort of bring balance to everything and have eggs in multiple baskets and whether it be services, wearables or their hardware.

They are continuing to make shareholders very happy in a time when you would think we'd see, we'd have seen them peak already and start to drop, so I. To me, this is a very positive thing across the board, and it does feel like q2 should probably be solid for Apple. There is a lingering question, though, and that relates to the coronavirus that is now in a very dangerous position in Wuhan in China and in that province, around Wuhan and starting to show up in other parts of the world. Apple says that it has alternative sources for components that are made in Wuhan in case Wuhan. Factories, don't reopen.

What's less clear, is impact on suppliers in other parts of China, the Chinese government extended the new year holiday, break from the end of January to February 10th, which will delay the startup of Apple's supplier factories, and we don't know if they might extend it again after February 10th or if this will all start to clear up and the next week, and everything will start to get back to normal. We just don't know what the timeline is. Cook said, however, that disruptions to sales in China both from supplies, but also retail sales, retail sales. Those stores are closed and China Apple stores are not selling iPhones in Wuhan or elsewhere because of the extended holiday. Because of the fears about the virus, that's figured in to projections which Apple is now projecting 63 to sixty-seven billion dollars in the next quarter, a bigger range than what it normally provides, but this is a risk.

Yeah, also it'll be nice to see when they see some turnaround on the membership staff, with he B+ and also in theory. Apple, arcade and I would actually like to know how arcade is doing their not reporting on those numbers separately. It's all part of the services package and I would love to know. I mean it's kind of like wearables. They weren't talking about Apple Watch numbers as an individual product.

They never have. It's always been lumped in and into wearables and accessories. So I wish. They would split that stuff out. I'd love to know what, for example, Apple Arcade did was doing or as projected to do and to see.

If that was as big a splash as I'd hoped, it was on mobile yeah, because in this kind of situation, if Apple had its services up and running stronger in China, you would assume they would do better, because people would be staying inside playing games watching TV right like it would be stronger, but it's not quite there yet yeah. Well, if you've got stories that you want us to see, you want the other members of the DAN s community to see our Subreddit is a great place to post, submit stories and vote on them at daily tech. News show at Reddit, calm thanks to everybody who gives us very good news leads every day. You can also join in the conversation in our discord, which you can join by linking to a Patreon account at patreon. com, slash, t TNS.

What's in the mailbag Tom I'm glad you asked Kevin actually wrote in our conversation yesterday about remote work, and it was a Ars Technica article that was very thorough about how that team works remotely and has done so for decades, and we're kicking around how we do it here as well. Kevin says: I work in accounting for a growing civil engineering firm with multiple offices. We outgrew our office space as a solution. Just over a year ago, our accounting team all volunteered to become testers of remote work, the technology and improving availability of high speed internet in rural Utah. That's where Kevin lives has made remote working very feasible for us prior to our going remote.

We already had those Poly com IP phones that can be plugged into any network switch and connect to the three digit extension. So that's helped us remain connected additionally, due to having multiple locations, our firm, utilizes, zoom and Microsoft Teams for communication for video voice and text. Due to the success of how our accounting group and the entire firm has adapted to having remote work workers, we've now been able to hire engineers living in more remote rural areas to better serve clients and also involve students who we hire in a part-time basis. When they're studying engineering to gain experience and often come on full-time once they graduate it does take the right person to work remotely and setting personal boundaries with routines. We also get together a time or two during the month in person where a remote worker will travel to the nearest office for meetings.

The success of remote workers Kevin says, who reduced the need for physical office space and commutes, along with being available to better service clients and family members who require additional care. We're just having better personal lives are all great reasons to consider. 'It's the cost savings that remote work can bring both in dollar cost and mental health benefit should be an ongoing driving force in proliferating, high-speed Internet to everybody. I agree: I want to know what town he's in there's a lot of rural in my home state I, don't live near any of it I'm in the city, but I would love to know what that is and where it is, and what this company does, because that's a great little success story and I have long been the thing like we all want. I, don't know that whole remote workplace thing to work out better we're all in an interesting position.

We're actually doing that, but by necessity, in a weird way. But there are companies who really are still resistant to it and I love, hearing success stories like this. That's awesome, yeah I, think you know. Kevin makes some good points. It's not for everybody.

It's not just it's not just the solution. As everybody works from home. You know you never have to go to work again. You know kind of thing, but in some situations cost savings. It actually is advantageous to companies shout out to patrons at our master and Grand.

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