Samsung sales slow, Tinder gets loopy and a blind robot that can walk just fine.

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After a recent spate of violence instigated via WhatsApp the Indian government is asking the app maker for help in cracking down on irresponsible messaging blamed for inflaming tensions. But what can WhatsApp really do and what civic and legal responsibilities do messaging platforms aren’t used to incite violence.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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• Quick Hits
  • (01:15) Kenya to use Alphabet’s balloons for rural internet | reuters
  • (01:30) Apple dropping Intel as radio chip supplier, killing off the product – report | 9to5mac
  • (01:55) China’s ZTE Replaces Executives in Rush to Comply With U.S. Mandate | wall street journal
  • (02:15) Kuo: New 2018 iPhone models to come in gold, grey, white, blue, red and orange colors | 9to5mac
  • (02:55) Tinder adds GIF-like video loops to spice up your dating profile | engadget
• More Top Stories
  • (03:15) Amazon Takes a Page From Toys ‘R’ Us With a Holiday Catalog | bloomberg
  • (06:15) MEPs vote to reopen copyright debate over ‘censorship’ controversy | tech crunch
  • (08:10) London police chief ‘completely comfortable’ using facial recognition with 98 percent false positive rate | the verge
  • (09:55) Meet the Numtots: the millennials who find fixing public transport sexy | the guardian
  • (13:55) Baidu partners with Intel’s Mobileye to enhance Apollo self-driving platform | venture beat
• Discussion Story (15:15)
  • Who can stop India WhatsApp lynchings? | bbc news
  • On WeChat, rogue fact-checkers are tackling the app’s fake news problem | poynter
• Thing of the Day
  • DTNS Sub-reddit
• Messages of the Day
  • (27:15) Adena – DTNS sharing
  • (28:30) Jenny – DTNS swag
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  • Justin Robert Young
    • Politics Politics Politics
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    • Jury Talks
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Volkswagen launches electric car-sharing service, Uganda social media tax is supposed to combat lying, ZTE names XU Ziyang its new CEO.

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In this episode, we discuss:
Our takeaways from E3
Sony’s cross play PR issues
Battle passes are the new standard
Steam sales recommendations (Scott: Celeste, Endless Space 2 / Patrick: Opus Magnum, Dead Cells)

With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.

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ZTE resumes US Business, Uber is in talks to merge with Uber and Careem Networks, and Micron faces Chinese injunction

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As Sony stands firm on not allowing cross platform play on Fortnite for the PS4 we discuss the implications of Sony’s policy and whether or not change course any time soon.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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• Quick Hits
  • (01:00) Google Cloud’s COO has left after less than a year | cnbc
  • (01:35) Revealed: Amazon Go’s new Seattle location signals tech giant’s growing ambitions for checkout-free retail concept | geekwire
  • (02:00) Facebook is shuttering a bunch of its apps you didn’t bother to use | thenextweb
• More Top Stories
  • (03:00) A Bug in Samsung’s Default Texting App Is Sending Random Pics to Other People | gizmodo
  • (05:35) Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at EU copyright law | bbc news
    • Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on copyright in the Digital Single Market | European Commission
    • DIRECTIVE 2001/29/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT… | Official Journal of the European Communities
  • (07:55) Facebook bug randomly unblocked some users from people’s block lists | the verge
  • (09:55) California Supreme Court rules Yelp can’t be ordered to remove bad reviews | cnet
  • (12:20) Scientists can now use sound waves to detect cancer | thenextweb
• Discussion Story (15:55)
  • Sony Not Allowing Cross-Platform Play
    • SONY’S STUBBORN STANCE ON CROSS-PLAY IS EMBARRASSING | ign
    • Sony’s response to Fortnite controversy is embarrassing | polygon
    • How much is Sony willing to get hurt to keep people apart? | polygon
    • Sony faces growing Fortnite backlash at E3 | bbc news
    • Sony is “looking at possibilities” for total cross-platform play | pcgamer
    • Sony tries to buy more time for PlayStation 4’s Fortnite account debacle | polygon
    • Fallout 76’s Todd Howard: No cross-console play because ‘Sony is not as helpful as everyone would like’ | polygon
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  • (26:55) Bill – Automation conversation response
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Samsung Messages app sends photos to random contacts, Yelp wins case that it can’t be held liable for defamatory posts, Sony raises Vue prices by $5/month.

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