Fri. 10/18 - Zuckerberg Says Free Speech Is Good! (Facebook, Also Good!)

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🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Zuckerberg defends Facebook as a champion of free speech, will iPhone users have unlimited photo uploads to Google Photos while Pixel 4 owners will not, dial back your expectations for the Photoshop iPad app, the Vatican has a wearable prayer gadget, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: WeWorkRemotely.com Vistaprint.com promo code Ride Links: Samsung says fingerprint security fix is coming as early as next week (The Verge) Defiant Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won’t Police Political Speech (NYTimes) On Facebook’s live stream, Zuckerberg’s free-speech lecture got a big thumbs up (Washington Post) Google Photos format loophole seems to give iPhone free unlimited storage for orig. quality photos, Pixel 4 left behind (9to5Mac) Photoshop for iPad Nearing Launch With Some Key Features Missing (Bloomberg) Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary (CNN) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Apple, iPhone 11, 11 Pro & 11 Pro Max Review (AnAndTech) The Creators Of Pokémon Go Mapped The World. Now They're Mapping You (Kotaku) The Young Firms Rethinking Social Media (The Information) Inside Apple's Long, Bumpy Road to Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter) How Pinterest Built One of Silicon Valley’s Most Successful Algorithms (OneZero) Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free (ProPublica) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, October 18th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough
0:08.7	today. Zuckerberg defends Facebook as a champion of free speech.
0:13.4	Will iPhone users have unlimited photo uploads to Google photos while
0:16.5	Pixel 4 owners will not?
0:18.8	Dial back your expectations for the Photoshop iPad app. The Vatican has a wearable prayer gadget and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:27.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.0	Samsung says that that that fingerprint bug on Galaxy
0:36.2	devices is kind of what we thought it was. It's due to the sensor reading
0:41.6	3D patterns in certain screen protector cases as fingerprints
0:45.5	and the company will have a patch ready to go as soon as next week and they
0:50.4	confirmed that the issue indeed affects the Galaxy S10, S10 plus, S10, 5G, and the Galaxy Note 10 and note 10 plus.
1:00.0	Quoting the verge.
1:02.0	Until the patch is available,
1:03.5	Samsung is advising users not to use any such covers.
1:06.8	It says users should remove the cover,
1:08.8	delete any previously registered fingerprints,
1:11.1	and then re-register them without the cover applied.
1:14.0	If you're using the screen protector that came pre-applied to your phone, then you should be fine.
1:19.0	But for everyone else, it couldn't hurt to try and unlock your device with a non-registered fingerprint just to check."
1:26.2	I, by the way, have no update on that issue with the Pixel 4 phones opening even when your eyes are closed.
1:35.0	You've no doubt heard that Mark Zuckerberg gave a big speech yesterday defending Facebook as a champion of free expression.
1:46.0	And I considered covering it even yesterday, but while I was watching it, I just was like, I'm not sure
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