Amazon announces new Echos, Facebook out to help blood donors in India, and Anthony Levandowsky, formerly of Uber, has started an AI religion.

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Amazon unleashes new Echo products, Apple explains how Face ID works and Twitter doubles its character limit.
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• News You Should Know
  • Twitter trials expanding tweets…to 280 | TechCrunch
  • Google Makes Big Concession in Europe | Fortune
  • Google pulls YouTube off the…Echo Show | The Verge
• More Top Stories
  • Amazon debuts…slew of new Echo devices, too | Ars Technica
  • Apple, Fitbit, others work with FDA… | Ars Technica
  • IPhone X to use…anti-spoof Face ID tech | BBC
    • Apple explains how Face ID learns… | The Verge
  • Comcast…introduces Xfinity Instant TV… | engadget
• Discussion
  • Twitter trials expanding tweets…to 280 | TechCrunch
  • Twitter workarounds give anyone 280 characters… | engadget
• Thing of the Day
  • Amateur Traveler
• Messages of the Day
  • Natron – Great Cheap Phones
  • Kevin – August Lock
• Today’s Contributor
  • Scott Johnson

Firefox Quantum is twice as fast, Twitter extends character limit to 280, YouTube blocks its videos from Amazon Echo Show.

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Firefox gets faster, Plex gets newsier, and Dubai tests self-flying cars.
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Microsoft announces new Office dates, macOS High Sierra password vulnerability uncovered, Amazon adds Alexa to its music app.

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Apple swings back to Google from Bing. Is that bad for us all? Plus, touch-sensitive denim jacket launches and Microsoft announces a quantum programming language.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Veronica Belmont.

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• News You Should Know
  • (00:35) Instagram..has 800 million monthly…users | TechCrunch
  • (01:00) Fitbit’s Ionic…goes on sale on October 1st… | Circuit Breaker
• More Top Stories
  • (01:25) Microsoft is going all in on Teams… | TechCrunch
    • Microsoft 365 expands with Education and F1 bundles | Venture Beat
  • (03:50) Microsoft makes play for next wave of computing… | Ars Technica
  • (05:10) Intel Coffee Lake i7-8700K brings six cores… | Ars Technica
    • Intel Core i9-7960X…beats Threadripper… | Ars Technica
  • (06:55) How to Download and Install Apple macOS High Sierra | Fortune
    • There’s one good reason to update… | The Verge
    • High Sierra validates Mac firmware weekly… | AppleInsider
  • (09:55) …Levi’s…smart sleeve…going on sale… | TheVerge
• Discussion
  • (13:15) Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri… | TechCrunch
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  • (21:35) Mike – Surface 4 replacement
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  • (23:05) James – WalMart’s delivery concept
  • (27:10) Phil – London/Uber conflict
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Microsoft announces quantum computing language, Levi’s touch-sensitive Google jacket arrives, Uber and London start talking.

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DTH Sunday History Edition

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Last weekend we changed servers for the script that feeds Daily Tech Headlines to the Amazon Echo. Alex, who wrote the script made the appropriate changes and Dan who runs the server signed off.

However Amazon returned an error saying the feed was not current. As anyone who subscribes to the podcast knows, there is current content, so somehow it wasn’t getting to the new script.

Alexa and Dan found a couple things they thought it might be and tweaked them then resubmitted. Alex even tested the feed to see if it worked and it did on Amazon’s Echo simulator. But we got the same error. By this time it was Wednesday so Thursday Alex submitted a ticket with Amazon asking for them to review and tell us what they saw as wrong since everything looked OK on our end. I also emailed my contact on the Echo team who helped us get set up in the first place.

We have not yet heard back from Amazon. As soon as we do we hope we can figure it out and get Daily Tech Headlines working again. Our deepest apologies for the disruption.

Tom