Amazon’s Sidewalk feature, Robots, XCloud, and Avengers DLC- TNCS Ep 120

In this week’s episode we discuss the future of game streaming on XBox Xcloud service and Square Enix’s plans to salvage the unprofitable Marvel Avengers game.  In tech news we go over the new data caps being imposed by Comcast on more than a dozen states.  Amazon started getting some privacy backlash from their new sidewalk feature that shares your WiFi with other devices.  A major school system was shut down this week due to a ransomware attack and humans are quickly being replaced by robots.

 

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• Xbox Could Be an App on Your TV Within a Year, Says Phil Spencer
  • https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-could-be-an-app-on-your-tv-within-a-year-says-phil-spencer?sf133107215=1&fbclid=IwAR1e5wnQa_xAPYHGNdA1aIpq89_KWVJRPR34e1Dg1n9iLQ38vz7NVi7tTvg
• Square Enix to Save Marvel's Avengers with DLC
  • https://gamerant.com/marvels-avengers-dlc/?utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=GR-FB-P&utm_campaign=GR-FB-P&fbclid=IwAR3b7PCwBH853Y-KTbBlyEhmE5k31lH1RwnXbRmbpeJ5niq_64U5a-TyMco 
• Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year
  • https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/23/21591420/comcast-cap-data-1-2tb-home-users-internet-xfinity?fbclid=IwAR2tA1GXc6JKeETVK3Ueq8Sd7n8RVKYbYvpAtAcS26Jcm8XMuQwth9BxFUk
• Amazon faces a privacy backlash for its Sidewalk feature, which turns Alexa devices into neighborhood WiFi networks that owners have to opt out of
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-sidewalk-privacy-neighborhood-wifi-networks-us-2020-11?fbclid=IwAR0_nVVSKJVCvbSKXQ5bAgVDOE1IqYYe4zUHVimCmVd6-VnG1IFQdmQs1Fg 
• al.com: Huntsville City Schools closing early for cybersecurity threat.
  • https://www.al.com/news/2020/11/huntsville-city-schools-closing-early-for-cybersecurity-threat.html
• Robots on the rise as Americans experience record job losses amid pandemic
  • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/27/robots-replacing-jobs-automation-unemployment-us?fbclid=IwAR2WFlX1iQcdj7VwWXGiey8-GkSKWIrE2X0-wMYjVeoYGoiiWpVX8rBVwcA 
• Grist: Self-driving tractors, robot apple pickers: Witness the high-tech future of farming. 
  • https://grist.org/food/self-driving-tractors-robot-apple-pickers-witness-the-high-tech-future-of-farming/