AMD “has a potent combination of both CPU and GPU technologies,” writes Slashdot reader MojoKid, that “can play well in the laptop market especially, where a tight coupling of the two processing engines can mean both performance and cost efficiencies.” One of the first all-AMD laptops to hit the market powered by the company’s new Ryzen 4000 mobile processors is the…
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North Dakota’s COVID-19 App Has Been Sending Data To Foursquare and Google
The official COVID-19 contact-tracing app for the state of North Dakota, designed to detect whether people have potentially been exposed to the coronavirus, sends location data and a unique user identifier to Foursquare — and other data to Google and a bug-tracking company — according to a new report from smartphone privacy company Jumbo Privacy. From a report: The app, called…
Joe Rogan is Moving His Podcast, One of the World’s Most Popular Podcasts, Exclusively To Spotify
“The Joe Rogan Experience,” one of podcasting’s longest-running and most popular shows, will be launching on Spotify exclusively this year. From a report: The Rogan-hosted comedy talk-show series will debut on Spotify on Sept. 1, 2020, on a nonexclusive basis — before becoming exclusive to the platform later later in 2020 under the multiyear licensing deal. With Rogan, Spotify has landed…
Will the Pandemic Finally Kill Cable TV?
In just the first three months of 2020, cable broadcasting’s so-called “Pay TV” services have already lost 1.7 million paying subscribers, reports Variety:
Comparing the losses against Q1 2019 paints a grim picture for most providers, but especially for AT&T, who lost a massive 3.6 million video customers in a year. Comcast has the second highest losses, down by 900k, with Dish…
Twitch Is Developing Talk Shows and Dating Programs for Gamers
Twitch, the online video site popular among gamers, is looking for its version of “The Bachelor.” From a report: The company plans to fund a slate of original, unscripted series that would be live and interactive, airing two to three times a week, according to an internal document seen by Bloomberg. Its preferred genres are game shows, dating shows, sports, music…
Ad Firms Are Exploring Deepfaked Commercials
“With the pandemic having shut down production, companies are asking ad agencies to create commercials made up of digitally altered footage,” reports the New York Times, citing a State Farm commercial that aired during an ESPN documentary starring the anchor of “SportsCenter,” Kenny Mayne:
The producers made the commercial by layering video of Mr. Mayne’s 60-year-old mouth onto footage of his 38-year-old…
Some ‘Reopen’ Domains Could Be Phishing and Malware Campaigns
CNET reports on new research from a threat-intelligence company into the more than 540 domain names registered this month with the word “reopen” in their URL. While hundreds of them are “designed to lend credibility to anti-lockdown protests,” and 98 more were purchased to thwart that effort, there’s still many other domains that “come from suspicious sources or resellers looking to…
Why You’re Still Paying For Sports On Cable When There’s No Live Sports
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Cable-TV companies are still charging customers for sports channels even as the coronavirus pandemic forces the suspension of all major sports leagues. The continued charges include Regional Sports Network (RSN) fees, which often add almost $10 to customer bills in exchange for access to local professional and college live-sports broadcasts. But RSN…
With Live Sports Gone, Announcer Offers Play by Play of the Everyday
The narration begins customarily, with the play-by-play announcer enthusiastically welcoming his audience live to a competition unfolding on the screen. But this is no ordinary competition. From a report: “It’s the final of the two lonely blokes in a park contest,” the announcer, Nick Heath, begins, setting the scene of two men idly kicking a ball in a park. When one…
What Are the Best Free Streaming Services?
An anonymous reader shares some free streaming media options: There’s over 10,000 public domain audiobooks at LibriVox.org, created by volunteers reading public domain works. (If you’ve got time, why not record yourself reading your own favorite public domain poem or novel?) And there’s also a lot of free audiobooks (and ebooks) available through Hoopla, a free “digital media” service that’s partnering…