Month: June 2018

In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

1. VPNFilter malware infecting 500,000 devices is worse than we thought
2. Yahoo Messenger shutting down on July 17
3. NTIA
   Sixty-four percent of Americans used a smartphone in 2017, compared with 53 percent in 2015, and tablet use increased to 32 percent from 29 percent during the same period. The use of wearable devices such as smart watches and fitness bands—still a nascent product category—grew significantly to 8 percent of Americans, from 1 percent two years earlier. Smart TV and TV-connected device use also continued to increase, growing by seven percentage points to 34 percent from 2015 to 2017.

   Laptop use was unchanged at 46 percent of Americans, and desktop computer use continued to slide to 30 percent in 2017—meaning tablet use surpassed desktop computer use for the first time (see Figure 3).

4. The Verge WWDC highlights

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1. Gmail UI redesign. Like some aspects like ease of seeing which messages have attachments. Still dislike the Google Calendar redesign which requires more clicks & typing to do the same thing as the old UI.
2. WWDC 2018? Meh. Not expecting anything in the consumer products space
3. Google continues ignoring tablets by removing section from Android’s official website

   Hiroshi Lockheimer Google SVP says it was a “bug” duirng a site update

4. Jon’s App of the Week: Unwind Me – cool idea for games that get slower as you play, helping you relax. 99 cents.
5. Geekwire: Investors include Vulcan Capital (Paul Allen), Lux Capital, Google’s GV venture arm, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and Amazon’s Alexa Fund.

   CTRL-Labs, makers of a wristband that can pick up signals from the brain and allow users to control a digital device without moving a finger.

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