Tue. 08/11 – Google To Create A Global Android-Powered Earthquake Alert System

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🗓️ 11 August 2020

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Android is becoming a worldwide earthquake detection network. Major legal setback for Uber and Lyft in California. Businesses using Bitcoin as their capital reserve. Parallels Desktop supports Big Sur. Nreal still believes in consumer AR glasses. And we try my deepfake audio experiment. Sponsors: LiftOff.to LinkedIn.com/ride Links: ANDROID IS BECOMING A WORLDWIDE EARTHQUAKE DETECTION NETWORK (The Verge) California Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Uber, Lyft (Bloomberg) MicroStrategy becomes first listed company to buy bitcoin as part of its capital allocation strategy (The Block) Parallels Desktop 16 adds Big Sur support, 3D Metal support, and more (Ars Technica) Nreal’s augmented reality glasses are shipping this month in Korea (The Verge) Airbnb Plans to File Confidentially for IPO in August (WSJ) SpaceX is manufacturing 120 Starlink internet satellites per month (CNBC) Tesla is involved in the development of a smartwatch, but why? (Electrek) Onyx Launches a 6-Inch Color E-Reader (PCMag) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme ride home for Tuesday, August 11th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.6	Today Android is becoming a worldwide earthquake detection network.
0:13.2	Major legal setback for Uber and Lyft in California,
0:16.8	businesses using Bitcoin as their capital reserves.
0:19.8	Paralleles Desktop supports Big Sur and Real still believes in consumer AR glasses and we finally
0:25.3	get to try my deep fake audio experiment.
0:28.2	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:30.3	I gotta admit that this sounds cool as hell.
0:37.0	Android is becoming a worldwide earthquake detection network.
0:41.0	Google is partnering with the US Geological Survey to create a worldwide
0:44.8	Android phone-powered earthquake alert system using the accelerometers found in
0:50.0	smartphones. The first part of the system is rolling out today and it is opt-in, but if you do opt-in,
0:55.8	your phone will automatically send data points to a system that will be used to detect earthquakes,
1:01.2	quoting the verge.
1:02.8	It's a feature made possible through Google's strengths, the staggering number of
1:06.5	Android phones around the world, and clever use of algorithms on big data.
1:10.6	As with its collaboration with Apple on exposure tracing and other Android features like car crash detection and emergency location services,
1:17.0	it shows that there are untapped ways that smartphones could be used for something more important than doom scrolling.
1:23.0	Google is rolling out the system in small stages.
1:26.0	First, Google is partnering with the United States Geological Survey and the California Office of Emergency Services
1:32.0	to send the agency's earthquake alerts to
1:34.2	Android users in that state. Those alerts are generated by the already
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