Wed. 02/27 - TikTok Bigger Than Instagram?

Tech Brew Ride Home

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Fast flash storage for phones, TikTok passes a billion downloads, FedEx rolls out its own delivery bot, why you might be overpaying for cloud computing and why China wants to map the faces of pigs. Sponsors: Tiny.website DataDogHQ.com/ridehome Links: Samsung's new 512GB flash chip is twice as fast as its predecessor (Engadget) TikTok was bigger than Instagram last year after passing the 1 billion download mark (Business Insider) Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy (Google's The Keyword Blog) FedEx unveils autonomous delivery robot (The Verge) Threads emerges from stealth with $10.5M from Sequoia for a new take on enabling work conversations (TechCrunch) As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills (The Information) Containers may be leading to cloud computing cost overruns (ZDNet) Rotten Tomatoes tweaks audience ratings system to thwart online trolls (The Los Angeles Times) China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces (NYTimes) 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 Wednesday, February 27th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:10.0	Today, Fast Flash storage for phones.
0:14.0	Tic-Toc passes a billion downloads.
0:16.0	FedEx rolls out its own delivery bot.
0:18.0	Why you might be overpaying for cloud computing and why China wants to map the faces of pigs. Here's what you
0:24.8	miss today in the world of tech.
0:27.0	Samsung has begun mass production of 512 gigabyte embedded universal flash storage 3.0 chips for
0:36.8	smartphones. The headline here is that these new chips can achieve read speeds of 2,100 megabytes per second and right speeds of
0:45.8	410 megabytes per second. Quoting in gadget, according to the company the new
0:50.5	storage solutions read speeds are 20 times faster than a typical micro
0:54.9	SD card and are even four times faster than a SATA solid state drive.
1:00.9	Theoretically a user will be able to transfer a full HD movie to a PC
1:06.4	from a phone equipped with the new UFS chips in as fast as three seconds. Samsung also expects those speeds to be able to help provide a
1:15.8	seamless user experience in quote future smartphones with ultra large high
1:20.4	resolution screens end quote.
1:22.7	The new 512 gigabyte E UFS chip is launching this month along with a 128 gigabyte
1:30.1	version.
1:31.1	Samsung plans to start manufacturing a 1 terabyte and a 256 gigabyte
1:35.1	model in the second half of the year as well."
1:37.0	End quote.
1:40.0	Still keeping an eye on how Tik-Tok is somewhat quietly, though maybe not that quietly
1:47.6	anymore, becoming the new big thing in social platforms.
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