James Piecowye took over Nightline in October 2006 until it was canceled in June 2018. The cast and crew of Nightline decided to keep the show going and this is where James posts the notes.
Dec 20
Have you got a sevenhugs remote on order?https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/901859853/sevenhugs-smart-remote-the-first-remote-for-everyt?ref=1oziko&utm_source=sendicate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-12-14+CH+Dedicated%3A+Control+everything+in+your+home+with+a+single+remote
(jatin answer: actually i do, ordered it already!)
Facebook and the metric mess!http://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/complete-list-facebooks-misreported-metrics-and-what-they-mean?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%20Weekly%20Roundup:%20Social%20Media%20Today%2012-17-2016&utm_term=Social%20Media%20Today%20Weekender
2. Android and IoT is going to get easier.http://readwrite.com/2016/12/15/googles-android-things-toolbox-helps-iot-devices-get-connected-dl4/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20161213&bt_ee=XQCR0lst1TkPPBVYQgRahqkoaR6NiEj3uCXZLU9st8lZeF4DyOi1w7U2168qo+zM&bt_ts=1481972369568?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=sOLsYFm9FprBS3hh2Su3vP4aCFLpaiKX/0a6LqwJrdREVsaBkVMS9rAufPy0rKY0
3. Facebook ads filters to photos! Like Snap(not on my app yet)http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/facebook-messenger-camera-revamp/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DT:%20Brief%20Daily%202016-12-15&utm_term=DT%20Newsletter%20-%20Daily%20Subscribers
4. WordPress allows VR and 360 publishing!https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2016/12/15/introducing-vr-and-360-content-for-all-wordpress-com-sites/#more-37489
5. Coke bottle cap allows 30 second audio recordinghttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/coca-cola-invented-bottle-cap-lets-you-record-audio-message-loved-one-175107?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=AW_Adfreak&utm_campaign=Adweek_Newsletter_2016171421
6. Foot locker launches audio tours of its shoes in store with the people who created them talking! Like a museum tour sort of but phone enabled!http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/foot-locker-learns-move-museums-launching-store-sneaker-audio-tours-175109
7. Experia EarUAE can now pre-order Xperia TM Ear; Sony’sintelligent personal assistantXperia Ear is available to pre-order exclusively from theTechmall online store for a special price of AED 799All pre-orders receive a unique AED 100 voucher,redeemable against purchase of Sony Mobile accessories
Dubai, 19 th December 2016: Sony Mobile Communications today announced that Xperia Ear is available to pre-order for consumers, exclusively at Techmall online. Xperia Ear is a smart product from Sony Mobile, an in-ear personal assistant to help communicate and get thingsdone via conversational voice interaction and simple head gestures.
It’s designed to bring a new way of communicating, without compromising on enjoying the world around you. It provides useful information such as your schedule, weather and the latest news to keep you up-to- date on the go. Powered by Sony Agent Technology; an adaptive platform, Xperia Earresponds to verbal commands, so you can ask it to make a call, perform an internet search, dictate a message or navigate to a certain location.
Xperia Ear reads out incoming texts, WhatsApp or Facebook messages and allows you to initiate a response with a simple nod and then reply instantly with your voice. Xperia Ear has a full-day of battery life and, most importantly, doesn't feel uncomfortable when it's placed in your ear.
Jason Smith, Vice President, Middle East & Africa at Sony Mobile Communications, said: “Xperia Ear enables you to be aware of and in touch with the world around you. It gives you a liberating feeling of not being tied to a smartphone. You can travel and work as it assists you inseveral tasks on the go. Besides calls and messaging, it schedules and manages appointments, provides navigation to reach meetings and searches for information. Xperia Ear enables you to fully immerse in your world, it gives you the freedom to look up from your smartphone.”
Priced at AED 799, the Xperia Ear will be available to pre-order from 1 st
January 2017 for a period of two weeks. In addition, all pre-orders will
receive a voucher for AED 100 for any Sony Mobile accessories purchased
at Techmall online.
From 15 th January 2017, Xperia Ear will be available in-store, at Sony
Boutique (Dubai Mall), Sharaf DG (Times Square), Jumbo Electronics (Mall
of the Emirates) and at Dubai Duty Free.
To pre-order Xperia Ear and see the specifications, please visit
http://sny.techmall.ae/
8. The real future of tv is streaming!https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/18/the-future-of-tv-isnt-apps/?ncid=rss
9. Google maps notes if a site is wheelchair accessible!https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/16/google-maps-now-notes-if-a-location-is-wheelchair-accessible/?ncid=rss
10. Motorola blog is a blogspot site and they had a hackathon for phone mods!http://motorola-blog.blogspot.ae/2016/12/mod-future-visits-big-apple-behind.html
11. Who isn’t FB hitting at, SNAP and now Skype!https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/16/desktop-group-audio-calling/?ncid=rss
12. Google Home (Andrew likes it) getting more connections in the US!https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/16/google-home/?ncid=rss
http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/15/google-home-launches-support-for-webmd-quora-dominos-and-dozens-more/
13. Samsung 9 laptop!https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/19/samsung-notebook-9-ridiculously-light/
14. Samsung may use arch rivals batteries LG in phones rumourhttps://www.engadget.com/2016/12/19/samsung-may-use-lg-batteries-in-phones/15 is apple thinking about its customers?https://www.cnet.com/news/apples-not-very-good-really-quite-poor-2016/#ftag=CAD590a51e
DubaiFitness championships
-lessons learned?-what do you bring back to your coaching from the competition?8 weeks of crossfit open workouts! It is that time!
Does the holiday season stress you out?
New years, parties, gifts, plans, family , money…
How do you make the festive season work?http://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/tc/quick-tips-reducing-holiday-stress-get-started
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/12053260/A-psychologists-guide-to-surviving-Christmas.html
FB Events App on Android! Was asked why I didn’t create a FB Event for CreativeMornings!Facebook’s standalone Events app that launched in October on iOS is launching on Android today. The app will go live on Google Play soon. The Facebook Events app helps you browse nearby happenings, see the dates of your upcoming Facebook Events as well as imported calendars and aggregates wall posts and alerts from Events to declutter your main app’s notifications.
3. Facebook Metric errors! I have issues with metrics and the fact we rely on them so much4.Apple can do no wrong even when it does wrong.David Lysgaard of Denmark emerged victorious in a court battle against Apple, but this case has nothing to do with patents and everything to do with how Apple conducts its business when it comes to replacing devices, reports MacRumors.According to Apple’s warranty and AppleCare policies, any repairs or exchanges might involve devices that are either new or “equivalent to new in performance and reliability,” the latter of which is often defined as refurbished. These refurbished models are likely to contain new and recycled parts, something that Lysgaard and the Danish court that handed down its decision against Apple took issue with.According to the court, the refurbished iPhone 4 that served as Lysgaard’s replacement handset might have a lower resale value, since it might contain recycled parts. Furthermore, the court saw the replacement phone as going against Lysgaard’s “legitimate expectation” of getting a new iPhone equivalent to his original purchase.
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5. Cool google https://earthengine.google.com/6.The most pirated show ever!According to data from industry analyst Muso, and published by the Daily Mail on Sunday, pirates illegally downloaded the first episode 7.9 million times, the second episode 6.4 million times and the third 4.6 million times. A lion's share of the downloads (13.7 percent of the total) originated in Britain. Muso figures that Amazon lost £3.2 million on the first episode alone. "It is the most illegally downloaded program ever," Chris Elkins, Muso chief commercial officer, told The Guardian. "It is off the scale in terms of volume. It has overtaken every big show, including Game Of Thrones, for the totals across different platforms."7.Uber and rogue one!8. Netflix on google daydream!https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/12/netflix-lands-on-googles-daydream-vr/?ncid=rssDaydream got a long list of new apps and services last week, including HBO Now, but Netflix was listed only as “coming soon.” Now, the Netflix VR app has arrived, as a separate, standalone app that works with Daydream VR headsets, including the Google Daydream View.The VR version of Netflix for Daydream looks very similar to the one that was previously available for Samsung’s Gear VR, which is not surprising given that it’s probably easy to leverage tech built for that for Google’s own virtual reality platform. Basically, it puts you in a simulated cabin with a big screen TV for your Netflix watching pleasure.Unfortunately, as of this writing it doesn’t appear to support offline downloads, since the app is separate from the main mobile Netflix app for Android, and you also have to sign in separately. Hopefully this is coming in a future update, since it would be great to strap this thing on during a transatlantic flight and just binge like it’s the end of the world and you’re all alone in your mountain-top chalet.9. This Nike Ad is great!10. Dolby Atmos coming to Xbox!This is cool!
Google’s head of diversity, Nancy Lee, is retiring from Google after several years of leading the company’s global diversity and inclusion team, TechCrunch has learned.Lee, who originally joined Google’s legal team back in 2006, has been working on diversity at Google for the last few years. She started her diversity efforts as director of people operations in 2010, and became vice president of people operations in 2013.As head of people operations, Lee has overseen a number of initiatives, like diversity trainings and a Googler in Residence program that places Google employees at historically black colleges and universities. She’s also led the charge to increase diverse representation at the company.In Google’s latest diversity report, we saw that overall representation of women went from 30 percent female in 2014 to 31 percent female in 2015. But the overall percentage of black and Hispanic people did not increase at all, with overall representation of blacks remaining at 2 percent and Hispanics remaining at 3 percent. In 2015, only 4 percent of Google’s hires were black and 5 percent of its hires were Hispanic.12. Google getting out of the car business?https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/12/google-has-reportedly-stopped-developing-its-own-self-driving-car/?ncid=rssGoogle has reportedly shelved its long-standing plan to develop its own autonomous vehicle in favor of pursuing partnerships with existing car makers.The Information reports that Google’s self-driving car unit — known internally as Chauffeur — is working with establish automotive names to develop cars which will include some self-driving features, but won’t ditch the steering wheel and pedal controls. The firm is already working with Fiat Chrysler, per a partnership announced in May, and that could be the start of others to come.Google first set out to do away with the steering wheel and pedals approach, but this backtrack is from Alphabet CEO Larry Page and CFO Ruth Porat who found the original approach to be “impractical,” according to the report. That’s despite Google’s autonomous vehicles clocking over two million miles of tests on public roads.While Google may be taking its pedal off the gas for self-driving vehicles, The Information’s sources suggest it still harbors ambitious plans and is working to introduce an autonomous taxi service before the end of 2017. Google has long been rumored to move into the on-demand car space — it offers carpooling via its Waze business — and this would bring it into direct competition with Uber. Uber began trialling self-driving taxis in Pittsburgh this year, while another, younger company Nutonomy is conducting similar tests in Singaporeand Boston so Google is very much playing catchup here.The company is hosting a media event around its self-driving car business in California on Tuesday, so we have more details soon.13. Machine learning and trademarks!A visual search engine for trademarks!https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/12/trademarkvision-uses-machine-learning-to-make-finding-logos-as-easy-as-a-reverse-image-search/?ncid=rssA company’s logo is an important part of its identity, but the process behind defining, registering and protecting these trademarks is a convoluted and rather archaic one. A startup called TrademarkVision aims to simplify it by replacing that laborious and arcane process with what amounts to a machine-learning-powered reverse image search. This isn’t in some lab, either: The EU just switched their whole image trademark system over to it.Most people probably haven’t had to do many trademark and logo searches. Well, why don’t you take the USPTO’s version for a spin so you know what it’s like? Try to find the Nike “Swoosh” or something.Oh, back already? Probably because TESS looks and operates like it was built in the late 1990s. You can get the hang of it in time, but for complex or broad operations like, for example, looking for logos like the Swoosh, it’s useless. And if you want to know what’s out there that’s like an image you have but isn’t in the database? Forget about it.And it isn’t just the website. The whole system of describing and classifying trademarks is clumsy and outdated. Because it was created decades ago, it relies on words, not images, and numerical codes to indicate something like a box or letter inside a circle.Only robots will understand.“These words — every system has a different meaning for them. You need to know a coding system for the country you’re in, and you’d have to check one country at a time,” explained founder and CEO Sandra Mau.“There are the ‘Vienna codes,’ the U.S. uses the ‘design codes,’ Australia uses keywords… this non-uniformity has caused a lot of problems for years,” added Cameron Mitchell, the company’s COO.That’s where TrademarkVision saw opportunity. Its engineers applied similar machine-learning technology to what the likes of Google and Facebook are using, but with a different purpose.“All that has been centered around captioning for photos,” Mau said — for example, identifying faces and locations so images can be categorized or indexed efficiently. “We’re the first in the world to caption what’s in a logo.”14. Anyone using opera browser?f you always hated having to open a new browser tab just to do your currency conversions, Opera is going to make you a lot happier this holiday season.The latest update to the company's desktop browser will feature a built-in converter that's easily accessible by simply highlighting an item's price and the browser will display the converted rate above.Do note, however, that the rates are from the European Central Bank and you may get a different rate from your bank's credit card.The update to the browser follows other improvements announced earlier this year, including a free built-in VPN service to let users bypass geo restrictions as well as for watching videos in HD quality (1,280 x 720 pixels).
