All About Android 545: Material You University

10/05/21 • 93 min

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Android 12 released, Pixel 6 event, Fairphone 4, BlueStacks X

Android 12 releases today, but the update for Pixel phones comes later.
Google working on 'finishing touches' for its Android 12 update with 'Pixel-exclusive' features.
Google just announced its Pixel 6 event on October 19th.
Google Pay's disastrous year continues, promised bank account feature is dead.
Fairphone 4 has an incredible 5-year warranty, aims for 6 years of updates.
Lenovo Legion Play leaked: Handheld game console running Android.
USB-C cables and devices will soon show how fast they can charge.
This app brings back the more useful power menu from Android 11 on Android 12 devices.
Personal Safety app now lets Pixel owners automatically record a video during an emergency.
BlueStacks X is a new and free way to play Android games in your browser.
A pessimistic view of the Epic v Apple lawsuit.
Another DeX success story.
An idea for "Email of the Week"

Read our show notes here: https://bit.ly/3Aanjw1

Hosts: Jason Howell and Ron Richards

Guest: Stacy Devino

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Android 12 released, Pixel 6 event, Fairphone 4, BlueStacks X

Android 12 releases today, but the update for Pixel phones comes later.
Google working on 'finishing touches' for its Android 12 update with 'Pixel-exclusive' features.
Google just announced its Pixel 6 event on October 19th.
Google Pay's disastrous year continues, promised bank account feature is dead.
Fairphone 4 has an incredible 5-year warranty, aims for 6 years of updates.
Lenovo Legion Play leaked: Handheld game console running Android.
USB-C cables and devices will soon show how fast they can charge.
This app brings back the more useful power menu from Android 11 on Android 12 devices.
Personal Safety app now lets Pixel owners automatically record a video during an emergency.
BlueStacks X is a new and free way to play Android games in your browser.
A pessimistic view of the Epic v Apple lawsuit.
Another DeX success story.
An idea for "Email of the Week"

Read our show notes here: https://bit.ly/3Aanjw1

Hosts: Jason Howell and Ron Richards

Guest: Stacy Devino

Subscribe to All About Android at https://twit.tv/shows/all-about-android.

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Security Now 839: “Something Went Wrong”

Picture of the Week.
Another two, in-the-wild, true 0-days found and fixed in Chrome.
Windows 11 arrives.
A known memory leak in Windows Explorer.
Ransomware and cyber warfare.
On the topic of thwarting SIM swapping attacks...
A widespread Android Trojan is making someone a bunch of money!
There's a problem with Apple Pay and Visa.
Foundation update.
SpinRite update.
"Something Went Wrong"

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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FLOSS Weekly 650: Decentralizing Social Networks

Can social media be decentralized? James Vasile of Open Tech Strategies and DSNP is working on several projects at once toward that goal. Vasile touches on these goals and much more including the fediverse, palgorithms (personal algorithms), advantages and limits of clouds and blockchains. It's a fascinating, wide-ranging discussion with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett of FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: James Vasile

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