Wed. 12/18 - Did Google Almost "Rage Quit" the Cloud?

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Everyone comes together to create a smart-home standard, did Google consider walking away from its cloud business, the last holdout comes to streaming, Gary Larson stops holding out on the web and the math behind that gift-wrapping video. Sponsors: Tiny Capital Aircall.io/ride Links: Apple, Google and Amazon are cooperating to make your home gadgets talk to each other (CNBC) We Tested Ring’s Security. It’s Awful (Motherboard) Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud (The Information) Cord cutters, you can finally stream your PBS stations online – on YouTube TV (USA Today) Virtual product placement is coming for TV and movies and Ryff has raised cash to put it there (TechCrunch) Far Side creator Gary Larson launches website with promise of new work (The Guardian) A Letter From Gary Larson (TheFarSide.com) The Internet Is Losing Its Mind Over This Gift-Wrapping Trick. Here's the Secret. (Popular Mechanics) The Gift Wrapping Video Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, December 18th, 2019.
0:07.8	I'm Brian McCullough. Today, everybody comes together to create a smart home standard.
0:13.0	Did Google consider walking away from its cloud business?
0:16.0	The last broadcast holdout comes to video streaming.
0:20.0	Gary Larson finally comes to the web
0:22.0	and the math behind that gift wrapping video.
0:24.8	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:27.0	Apple, Amazon, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance are announcing Project Connected Home
0:39.3	over IP, a partnership to create a new smart home networking standard.
0:45.0	Basically, no more trying to get your various Internet of things devices to play nice together.
0:49.0	Everybody's going to agree to the same set of standards and hopefully it'll all just work, quoting
0:55.0	CMBC.
0:56.7	The project is built around a shared belief that smart home devices should be secure,
1:00.8	reliable, and seamless to use, the company said in a press release.
1:04.3	By building upon Internet Protocol, IP, the project aims to enable communications across smart home
1:10.3	devices, mobile apps and cloud services, and to define a specific set of IP-based
1:15.6	networking technologies for device certification, end quote.
1:19.4	Ziegby Alliance companies that are already creating products will also contribute.
1:23.3	They include among others, Samsung Smart Things, Schneider Electric, Signify, which is formerly
1:29.3	Phillips Lighting, IKEA, NXP Semiconductors, and Residio.
1:35.0	The group will focus first on physical safety smart home devices,
1:39.5	such as smoke alarms and CO sensors, smart doors and locks, security systems, electric plugs,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Amalgamated Internets, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Amalgamated Internets, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.