Google and 3M have joined the Universal Stylus Initiative. Will this herald a new age of stylus interchangeability between hardware vendors? Plus eBay will end use of PayPal as a back-end payment system in 2020 and YouTube TV is now available on select Roku devices.
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- Quick Hits
- (01:10) Discord Desktop Apps Gain Deep Spotify Integration, Including Real-Time ‘Listen Along’ Feature | mac rumors
- (01:35) Data-friendly YouTube Go app is available in 130 more countries | engadget
- (01:55) Microsoft extends Windows 10 support period, but makes cuts to Office 2019 | ars technica
- More Top Stories
- (02:35) Amazon’s results beat estimates on holiday season boost | reuters
- (04:10) Alphabet’s earnings miss Wall St. estimates as spending grows | reuters
- (06:15) Telegram apps fall foul of iOS App Store content rules | tech crunch
- (09:05) YouTube TV available on Roku, coming to Apple TV ‘very soon’ | cnet
- (12:30) Nintendo announces Mario Kart Tour smartphone game | polygon
- (14:20) Instagram’s new ‘type mode’ lets you add text-only pages to your stories | the verge
- (17:50) After 15 years, eBay plans to cut off PayPal as its main payments processor | recode
- (20:50) Google and 3M have joined an initiative working toward an open standard for styluses | the verge
- Thing of the Day
- (22:15) John – Galaxy s2 Watch
- Message of the Day
- (25:00) Anonymous – Cryptocurrency – related prices
- (26:20) Anonymous – Internet provider strategies
- Today’s Contributor
Mario Kart Tour in development, YouTube TV comes to Roku, Elon Musk sells out flamethrowers. 
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Fujifilm to take control of Xerox, Google Flights now predicts flight delays, send SMS using Alexa. 
Spectre and Meltdown have put a dampener on processor performance. But what does it mean for folks looking to upgrade their hardware; should you upgrade today or wait a few months? Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan team up to provide affordable healthcare for their employees. And are high GPU prices due to crypto-currency mining?
Protest against Messenger for Kids, Google closes acquistion of HTC hardware engineering, Snapchat has new Bitmoji options.
Apple plans on releasing three new Macs with custom co-processors later this year. Military users of the fitness tracker Strava may of inadvertently exposed sensitive location data. And is the US considering a building a government 5G network to combat spying?
Strava reveals military locations, Microsoft issues out-of-band Spectre rollback, US considering building its own 5G network.
It’s our end of month Jan 2018 roundtable episode. We examine the data security implications of smart speakers, discuss the future of state enforced net neutrality, ponder the how connected technology has changed traveling, and share the tech topics we’re tired of talking about.
Google gets into local news, Intel has good news despite Meltdown and Rakuten and Wal-Mart team up on groceries and ebooks.