Tue. 05/05 – UK’s Contact Tracing App Won’t Work In the Background

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

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The virtual WWDC begins June 22! The UK hasn’t played by Google and Apple’s rules and it seems like their contact tracing app is failing because of that. And yet, are Google and Apple making decisions above their station? Uber might be bailing out Lime. Microsoft is reconsidering its Windows X strategy. And Sensor Tower is the interesting raise of the day. Sponsors: Tibco.com/ride DoubleUp.agency Links: Apple kicking off week of virtual WWDC on June 22, jackets and pins for Swift Challenge winners (9to5Mac) UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal (The Register) The U.K.’s Coronavirus Contact Tracing App Is a Complete Mess (Vice) Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps (Reuters) Uber in Talks to Lead $170 Million Lime Investment at Lower Valuation (The Information) Confirmed: Intel is buying urban mobility platform Moovit in a $900M deal (TechCrunch) Microsoft confirms Windows 10X is coming to laptops amid big jump in Windows usage (The Verge) Facebook’s Oculus Is Developing a New Quest VR Headset (Bloomberg) Google Meet starts rolling out in Gmail, continuing Google’s quest to unseat Zoom (The Verge) Sensor Tower raises $45M as demand for app data grows (TechCrunch) https://www.reddit.com/r/RideHome/comments/gdyyoh/listener_feedback_post/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the tech meme Ryan home for Tuesday, May 5th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	The UK hasn't played by Google and Apple's rules and it seems like their contact tracing app is failing because of that.
0:16.0	And yet are Google and Apple making decisions above their station?
0:20.0	Uber might be bailing out Lyme.
0:22.0	Microsoft is reconsidering its Windows X strategy and
0:24.4	Sensor Tower is the interesting rays of the day.
0:27.3	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Apple has announced W.W. D.C. dates, which it does every year, is news every year,
0:38.9	just not always the biggest news every year. This year is different of course though so details around this
0:45.5	are sort of interesting. W. W. D.C. will kick off June 22nd. It will be virtual.
0:51.6	You will be able to participate and follow along inside the Apple developer
0:55.6	app as well as on the Apple website and it will be free for anyone quoting 9 to 5 Mac.
1:02.6	Apple doesn't share specifics about how exactly the virtual
1:05.6	W.W. D.C. will work beyond accessing it
1:08.6	through its developer app and website.
1:10.8	Fortunately, the company still has a month and a half to figure out the logistics of converting everything to a digital format, while preserving key elements of the W.W.C. experience, end quote.
1:21.0	So to sum up, free for anyone which I should underline anyone it's worth mentioning
1:29.0	that this means you can participate too no more lotterteries, no cap on developers.
1:34.0	And it's gonna happen a bit later in June than usual,
1:37.3	but that's no big deal.
1:38.3	Now, the only thing left to be seen
1:40.8	is how they will actually do things like demos while still
1:45.8	social distancing on stage because you know demos are demos they sometimes
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