Tue. 12/03 - Pablo Escobar's Brother's Smartphone

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Headlines from re:Invent, how tech is caught up in a tariff war with France, Facebook created a chatbot to help employees explain themselves during the holidays, and let me tell you about the new foldable phone from Pablo Escobar’s brother. Sponsors: Metalab Netgear.com/bestwifi Links: AWS Graviton2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS (ZDNet) AWS launches its custom Inferentia inferencing chips (TechCrunch) Trump Administration Proposes Tariffs Against $2.4 Billion of French Goods (WSJ) Former Google employees who say they were fired for organizing are filing labor charges against the company (Vox) Google fired us for organizing. We’re fighting back. (Google Walkout For Real Change) TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities (NetzPolitik.org) TikTok prevented disabled users’ videos from showing up in feeds (The Verge) DHS wants to expand airport face recognition scans to include US citizens (TechCrunch) Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle (NYTimes) Pablo Escobar's Brother Has Apple In His Crosshairs With... an 'Unbreakable' Foldable Phone? (Gizmodo) 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, December 3rd, 2019.
0:07.8	I'm Brian McCullough. Today, headlines from Reinvent, how Tech is caught up in a terrafore with France,
0:15.0	Facebook created a chatpot to help employees explain themselves during the holidays,
0:19.0	and let me tell you about the new foldable phone from Pablo Escobar's brother. Here's what you miss today in the world of
0:25.5	tech. As mentioned yesterday, Amazon is holding its Reinvent Conference right now and a couple of
0:39.1	headlines from that today.
0:41.1	First, AWS is updating its arm-powered processor line with Graviton 2, which it claims offers
0:46.8	40% better performance over comparable X86-based cloud instances, and it will cost 20% less to
0:54.7	AWS is serious about arm processors in the data center it seems
1:00.4	quoting z-dd-net grav 2, which is optimized for cloud native applications, is based on 64-bit
1:07.3	Arm, Neo-Verse Cores, and a custom system on a chip designed by AWS.
1:13.4	Graviton 2 boasts 2X faster floating point
1:16.6	performance per core for scientific and high performance
1:18.9	workloads, support for up to 64 virtual CPU's 25 G BPS of networking and 18 G BPS of EBS bandwidth
1:28.0	end quote and AWS has also launched its custom Inferentia Inferencing chips for EC2 instances
1:37.5	which promised to be more cost-effective than existing options, quoting Tech Crunch.
1:42.0	These new chips promised to make inferencing. options. Quoting Tech Crunch.
1:43.0	These new chips promise to make inferencing.
1:45.5	That is using the machine learning models you pre-trained earlier, significantly faster and cost effective.
1:51.8	As AWS CEO Andy Jesse noted, a lot of companies are
1:54.6	focusing on custom chips that let you train models, though Google and others
1:58.4	would surely disagree there. Inferencing tends to work well on regular
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