Fri. 04/05 - Alexa is Coming for AirPods

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Google scraps the AI ethics board, Alexa is coming for AirPods, the Bezos’ divorce is settled, Snap reminds everyone they’re pretty darned good at inventing weird stuff and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Metalab.co FlatironSchool.com/techmeme Links: Exclusive: Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry (Vox) Amazon Is Making a Rival to Apple’s AirPods as Its First Alexa Wearable (Bloomberg) Jeff Bezos, in divorce settlement, retains 75 percent of the Amazon stock he held with his now ex-wife MacKenzie (The Washington Post) Snapchat launches Mario Party-style multiplayer games platform (TechCrunch) Snapchat launches Scan, its AR utility platform (TechCrunch) Snapchat will power Stories & ads in other apps (TechCrunch) The Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Talking Reckless (A Gaming Podcast) Smart home, machine learning and discovery (Benedict Evans) 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds (Linux Journal) ‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: An Oral History of TiVo (OneZero) The World’s Greatest Delivery Empire (Bloomberg Businessweek) Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet (Buzzfeed News) Astronomers set to make 'groundbreaking' black hole announcement (CNET) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, April 5th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.6	Today, Google Scraps, the AI Ethics Board.
0:12.1	Alexa is coming for AirPods, the AI Ethics Board.
0:12.6	Alexa is coming for AirPods.
0:14.4	The Bezosis divorce is settled.
0:17.0	Snap reminds everyone they're pretty darn good
0:19.1	at inventing weird stuff,
0:20.9	and the weekend Long Reed's suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of
0:25.1	tech.
0:25.6	Well if it was a thinly disguised and poorly conceived PR stunt, as those critics I told you about yesterday
0:35.8	had alleged.
0:36.8	Then it was also a brief and disastrous one.
0:40.1	Google says it is dissolving its week old AI ethics board following the controversy I told you about yesterday
0:47.5	surrounding several members of that board.
0:49.5	Vox's Kelsey Piper has been all over this story and she wrote today, quote,
0:55.0	Thursday afternoon a Google spokesperson told Vox that the company has decided to dissolve the panel called the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council or
1:05.2	ATEAC entirely. Here's the company's statement in full quote. It's become clear that in the current environment, A, T, A, A, C, can't function as we wanted.
1:16.8	So we're ending the council and going back to the drawing board.
1:19.7	We'll continue to be responsible in our work on the important issues that AI raises and will find different ways
1:25.6	of getting outside opinions on those topics."
1:32.0	End quote. Sources are telling Mark Germin that Amazon is readying Air Pod like wireless earbuds
1:40.7	with Alexa built in for release as early as the second half of this year.
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