Saturday 5 May 2018

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It's Saturday, May 05, 2018.

Hey, good morning!

You made it to right here, Saturday morning. This week, Nintendo faced a patent infringement investigation over its Switch, Sprint and T-Mobile announce they're together, and the notch rears its ugly head again. This time, though, most of us don’t mind.

All it takes to get your stolen pooch back is an email to a CEO.
 

Jeff Bezos adds 'puppy savior' to his resumé
 

Jeff Bezos adds 'puppy savior' to his resumé<br />   

Apparently, all you need to do to get a hold of Jeff Bezos though is have your puppy stolen by a delivery driver and guess the CEO's email address, according to CNBC. After UK resident Richard Guttfield's black miniature schnauzer was nicked following a dog food delivery, Amazon tracked the driver, an independent contractor, and found the dog at the thief's home.

An Amazon spokesperson called the act "inexcusable" and said this is not representative of its standards for delivery partners. The driver will no longer be delivering packages for the online retailer -- naturally.

A gang brought in drones specifically to disorientate and surveil agents.
 

Criminals used a drone swarm to disrupt an FBI hostage rescue
 

Drones are what you make of them. One person's wedding videographer is another person's drug mule. And while hobbyist drones were first used for simple jobs like sneaking contraband into prisons, over the years they've become the criminal's Swiss Army knife of gizmos. The FBI's Joe Mazel told a crowd at the AUVSI Xponential conference this week about a particularly organized gang that used drones to interfere with a hostage situation last winter. As Defense One reports, a swarm of small drones descended on an FBI hostage team, performing "high-speed low passes" in an effort "to flush them" from their position. "We were then blind," Mazel added.
 

Getting together.

Sprint and T-Mobile: a coalition of also-rans

Sprint and T-Mobile: a coalition of also-rans

Pending regulatory approval, the two smallest national carriers are finally getting together. Cherlynn Low tells the tale of a union that's been years in the making.

The voice assistant now works with 5,000 different gadgets.
 

Google Assistant now works with every major smart home device brand
 

Google Assistant now works with every major smart home device brand<br />   

Part of making Google Assistant able to take on Amazon's Echo / Alexa powerhouse in the digital assistant game is having broad support for the massive number of smart home devices out there, and Google undeniably has that now. The company says the Google Assistant works with more than 5,000 devices, up from only 1,500 at the beginning of the year. It's a number that doesn't mean much on its own, but Google VP of Assistant and Search Nick Fox said "the Assistant now supports essentially all the major brands."
 

Seven out of ten people don’t mind it.
 

LG asked the public what they wanted. The answer was a notch.
 

LG asked the public what they wanted. The answer was a notch.<br />   

It’s here to stay. And LG’s new G7 is the proof.
 

4K HDR Atari?

Atari VCS pre-orders start May 30th, but it won't ship until 2019
 

Atari VCS pre-orders start May 30th, but it won't ship until 2019<br />   

Almost a year since it was announced, the Atari VCS will go up for preorder on May 30th via an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign. Atari will be offering two versions of the gaming system: a time-limited Collector's Edition featuring the faux wood-front panelling and the $200 Onyx Edition, which is just black. Boring. 
 

But wait, there's more...

1. Next 'Minecraft' update will be the last for some consoles

2. A fond farewell to Engadget Germany and Engadget Spain

3. MoviePass competitor Sinemia offers movie plans starting at $5/month

4. NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclear reactor

5. One man built his own vacation spot in VR

6. Nintendo faces Switch patent infringement investigation in the US

7. MoviePass brings back its movie-per-day plan

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Friday 4 May 2018

Editor's Pick: New Video-Making Tool Targets B2B Sales Pros


Richard Adhikari
May 4, 2018 5:00 AM PT
Consensus, which offers a Software as a Service platform for intelligent video demo automation, this week released Consensus Snap, a Chrome plug- in for business-to-business sales teams. Snap enables sales reps to record, send and track personalized screenshot video demos on the fly. Users can activate the screen recording or webcam features of Consensus Snap to record anything on their screens. [More...]

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Insurance and the Consumer IoT
Smart home and consumer IoT solutions promise significant opportunities for the insurance industry in terms of reducing costs, alleviating risks, deepening customer engagement, and creating new services and revenue streams. There are many barriers ahead to overcome, but given the tremendous upside, insurance companies have begun attacking these challenges with a multi-tiered strategy. [More...]
Ubuntu Budgie Whistles Up a Better Remix
If you have yet to try the Budgie desktop, the latest release of Ubuntu Budgie is a perfect opportunity to experience a classy and user-friendly computing platform. Budgie is one of the first home-grown Linux distros to release its latest version based on Ubuntu 18.04. The independent developer announced Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 last week, coinciding with Canonical's release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. [More...]
Facebook's Clear History Privacy Option: Boon or Sop?
Facebook plans to offer members a tool that to prevent tracking of their online activity outside the network. The Clear History feature will allow users to see which websites and applications send Facebook information when they use them, delete the data and prevent Facebook from collecting and storing it in the future. It will take a few months to build the tool, Facebook said. [More...]
Fitbit's Health Alliance With Google Could Be a Risky Experiment
Fitbit and Google on Monday announced a new partnership on healthcare. Fitbit will develop consumer and enterprise health solutions that will use Google's new Cloud Healthcare application programming interface. Fitbit also will move to the Google Cloud Platform to innovate and advance its products and services. Fitbit will leverage Google Cloud's infrastructure and security features. [More...]
Platform Logic
For some time, it has been my impression that in the CRM market, all -- or at least most -- of the good ideas have been taken. It's been a long time since we've seen a new systemic approach to front-office business. It's even been a long time since we've seen a major innovation at the department level. CRM itself was a systemic innovation in the last decade of the last century. [More...]
Publishers Protest Google's 'Troubling' GDPR Policy
Four trade groups representing 4,000 publishers have blasted Google's approach to compliance with Europe's upcoming GDPR. The new rules are set to take effect at the end of the month. Under its new GDPR-compliant policy, Google, as a provider of digital advertising services to publishers, will have sole control over data sent to it by publishers or collected from publishers' websites. [More...]
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The Morning After: Gaming cheats are getting caught

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It's Friday, May 04, 2018.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Welcome to the end! Of this week. We get a vague due date for Tesla’s next big project, the Model Y, Google’s voice assistant makes its way into thousands more smart devices and cheaters never prosper (and possibly go to jail) when it comes to Overwatch and Fortnite

Elon Musk says it'll spark a 'manufacturing revolution'.
 

Tesla's latest prediction for Model Y's arrival is 2020
 

Tesla's latest prediction for Model Y's arrival is 2020<br />   

Tesla’s forthcoming Model Y is still shrouded in mystery. We know it's a crossover EV, and we know it might not have mirrors... and that's about it. But CEO Elon Musk has now revealed that the company aims to bring the new vehicle to production in 2020, adding in its conference call that doing so will spark a "manufacturing revolution". We’re not sure what kind of revolution that would entail, though.
 

The main Alexa rival now works with 5,000 different gadgets.

Google Assistant now works with every major smart home device brand
 

Part of making Google Assistant able to take on Amazon's Echo / Alexa powerhouse in the digital assistant game is having broad support for the massive number of smart home devices out there, and Google undeniably has that now. The company says the Google Assistant works with more than 5,000 devices, up from only 1,500 at the beginning of the year. It's a number that doesn't mean much on its own, but Google VP of Assistant and Search Nick Fox said "the Assistant now supports essentially all the major brands." More Assistant tricks are coming to Google's wearable family, too.

A new OS build breaks out tools into standalone apps and introduces better shortcuts.
 

Microsoft is making it easier to take screenshots in Windows 10
 

The next Windows 10 Insider Preview build includes a lot of trial features -- including a new way to take screenshots. Instead of putting its Screen Sketch tool behind the Windows Ink menu, it's now a standalone app. Users will be able to summon it with a shortcut (winkey + shift + S). But instead of capturing the full screen, the updated feature operates like the snipping tool that drags an area to save as an image.
 

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Another 'Overwatch' hacker was fined thousands of dollars.
 

Blizzard and Epic take 'Overwatch' and 'Fortnite' cheating very seriously
 

Blizzard and Epic take 'Overwatch' and 'Fortnite' cheating very seriously<br />   

Gaming companies have had a field day making examples out of cheaters recently. A pair of Overwatch hackers were charged in South Korea as a result of a year-long investigation by the region's police. Working with Blizzard, the Seoul National Police Agency Cyber Security Department arrested 13 hackers in total -- and they weren’t the only ones caught.
 

Spoiler-free!
 

What we're watching: 'Avengers: Infinity War' and 'Lost in Space'
 

What we're watching: 'Avengers: Infinity War' and 'Lost in Space'<br />   

This week, most of the Engadget team headed to the theater, where the latest Marvel flick is setting box-office records. Find out how several of our editors felt about it (spoiler-free, although we can't guarantee anything about the comments section below), as well as our thoughts on a few new series from Netflix, Hulu and HBO.

But wait, there's more...

1. Twitter warns all users to change passwords following internal bug

2. Microsoft is fixing a Windows 10 bug that causes Chrome to freeze

3. Facebook is winning the augmented reality war

4. General Motors is 3D printing parts to make EVs more efficient

5. Nest's Temperature Sensor is now available for $39

6. Atmospheric harvesters will enable arid nations to drink from thin air

7. Amazon puts Seattle expansion on pause over tax proposal

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