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There's a popular narrative in tech media right now that Android upgrades are really, truly getting better — that for all the time device-makers take to send out updated software, they're nevertheless improving and making strides toward a more reasonable standard.

I've been tracking Android upgrade performance closely for years now, and I'm hesitant to buy into such a narrative — especially when it seems to be based mostly on limited-scope, anecdotal perception and maybe the occasional marketing department nudge. So now that my Android 10 Upgrade Report Card is complete, I thought it'd be interesting to take a careful look at the actual data surrounding Android upgrades to see what the cold, hard numbers reveal.

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Baptist Health is a three-hospital, nonprofit system serving Montgomery, Ala. and the surrounding region. It has 680 beds, 550 affiliated physicians and is the largest private employer in the area.

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With the future of WWDC 2020 increasingly in doubt, therelittle surprise that interest in whatcoming in iOS 14 is beginning to intensify, particularly if Apple is forced to provide a remote version of the conference. Herewhat we think we know about iOS 14 so far:

New product hints inside the code

The leaked iOS 14 builds seem full of new product hints. Not only does it seem to confirm that iPhone 9 will boast Touch ID and Express Transit, but also seems to show that the iPad Pro will indeed feature an iPhone-like triple-lens camera and time of flight sensor.

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This user complains to pilot fish that the network drive mapped to his PC has disappeared. Fish remaps it and goes on with his day.

But fish hears back from the user, who now says he can&t access a folder he used to be able to enter. That doesn&t make sense to fish, and after some back and forth, he finds that the map in the userhead needs adjusting. Hebeen trying to open a folder that he should have nothing to do with, and the folder he is looking for is one level down, in another folder but bearing the same name as the one hetrying to open.

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Autonomous and semiautonomous vehicles are making serious progress — and the mobile communications capabilities of those cars are also rapidly growing, perhaps too fast for their own security good — but they are going to run head on into a massive obstacle: human trust. It's a big deal for someone to let go of the steering wheel and brake and trust a computer to make all of the right calls. (Heck, I am still trembling from when I taught our 16-year-old daughter to take over the wheel. And you're asking me to trust the same operating system that crashes at least five times a week? Really?)

Two recent developments both increase trust and rip it apart. And off we go.

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Just days ago, Y Combinator announced that its upcoming Demo Day event would be moving online due to &growing concern over COVID-19.& The event, previously planned to span across two days at San FranciscoPier 48 building, would instead be hosted entirely online on March 23rd.

More changes this evening: YC is shifting Demo Day forward one full week, from March 23rd to March 16th.

In a blog post on the change, Y Combinator CEO and partner Michael Seibel cites an &accelerated& pace from investors in recent days as having encouraged the move:

Over the last few days, a large number of investors have accelerated their outreach to our current batch of founders. They are moving quickly to make investment decisions, and we&re going to match their pace and accelerate our schedule by one week. YC W20 online Demo Day will now be on March 16.

On March 16, the YC Demo Day website will go live, a modified version of the website that investors and founders have used over the past five years. Through the website, investors will have access to a single-slide summary, a short description of the company, and a team bio. They can sort companies by industry and geography, and will be able to export the list of companies to a spreadsheet.

While YC initially said that the pitches each company traditionally does live onstage for Demo Day would be &pre-recorded and released to all investors at the same time,& the announcement of the sooner-than-expected Demo Day only mentions slide summaries, company descriptions, and team bios — suggesting plans might have changed a bit to accommodate the new schedule.

Y Combinator confirmed to me that the Demo Day site will not have video presentations.