Mon. 07/29 - Google Leaks, So We Don't Have To

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🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Google continues to leak Pixel 4 details itself, Github bans users from specific countries, will we eventually see a TikTok phone? Consolidation in the food delivery space, and all hail our first official Fortnite World Cup Champion. Sponsors: WeWorkRemotely Lightstream.com/ride Links: (Don’t) hold the phone: new features coming to Pixel 4 (The KeyWord) GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea (TechCrunch) Amazon Wants to Rule the Grocery Aisles, and Not Just at Whole Foods (NYTimes) China's ByteDance, after Smartisan deal, says developing smartphone (Reuters) TikTok owner ByteDance confirms plans to produce a smartphone (The Verge) Europe's top court sharpens guidance for sites using leaky social plug-ins (TechCrunch) Just Eat £9bn merger plan sends shares soaring (The Guardian) Sony is crowdfunding a wearable 'air conditioner' (updated) (Engadget) Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf, 16, wins Fortnite World Cup singles and $3 million (ESPN) 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 Monday, July 29th, 2019.
0:07.8	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.8	Today, Google continues to leak Pixel 4 details itself.
0:13.0	GitHub banned users from specific countries.
0:15.6	Will we eventually see a Tik-Tok phone?
0:18.6	Consolidation in the food delivery space as expected and all hail our first official Fort Knight World Cup champion.
0:25.7	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. So Google has been pursuing a sort of unique PR strategy with the upcoming
0:37.8	Pixel4 smartphone. Instead of letting blogs and rumor sites float all of the
0:42.2	rumors and leaked photos Google is just
0:44.7	doing all the leaking themselves. They confirmed the existence of the Pixel 4 back in
0:49.4	June, even releasing an official design render.
0:53.0	But of course, the rumor mill has continued discussing all sorts of things,
0:57.5	like the sizable chin on the device,
0:59.5	and questioned why that was needed,
1:02.0	why so much real estate? What sort of sensors might Google be packing in there and why?
1:07.0	Well, again today, Google just up and told us why.
1:11.0	The Pixel 4 will come with face unlocking instead of fingerprint
1:15.0	unlocking and as people suspected it will also have radar-powered motion
1:20.2	sense features that will let you do things like skip songs, snoo's alarms, and more things
1:27.1	over time just by making gestures, basically waving your hand over the device or something
1:31.6	like that. I'll let Google explain it to you.
1:34.1	For the past five years our advanced technology and projects team ATAP has been
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