Wed. 01/09 - Google Assistant Everywhere!

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Now we know why Google has gone so big at CES: they want to put Assistant in everything, the first foldable phone arrives at CES, Twitter wants to show you only half of an NBA game, and Marc Zuckerberg wants to host his own version of a podcast, I guess. Sponsors: go.bitrise.io/ride Metalab.co Links: GOOGLE’S PLAN TO TAKE ON ALEXA: NEW FEATURES, NEW DEVICES, AND A TROJAN HORSE (The Verge) The world’s first foldable phone is charmingly awful (The Verge) Twitter hopes you want to watch NBA games from a camera focused on just one player (Recode) Zuckerberg's 2019 Challenge Post VC funding in U.S. startups nears $100 billion in 2018, highest since dot-com era (GeekWire) Venture Capital Funding Report 2018 (CBInsights) Cable operators will fight off 5G with 10-gigabit cable modems (VentureBeat) This pretax benefits startup is giving hourly workers a raise (Fast Company) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday January 9th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough. Today.
0:11.0	Now we know why Google has gone so big at CES. They want to put assistant in everything.
0:17.0	The first foldable phone arrives at CES.
0:20.0	Twitter wants to show you only half of an NBA game, and Mark Zuckerberg wants to show you only half of an NBA game and Mark Zuckerberg wants to
0:24.9	host his own version of a podcast I guess that and other things explained from
0:30.9	a particularly odd day in the world of tech.
0:34.0	Google's expanded presence at
0:38.0	CES this year has paid off with a bunch of big announcements.
0:42.0	TLDR, Google Assisted. with a bunch of big announcements.
0:42.7	TLDR, Google Assistant is coming to everything.
0:47.6	A bunch of Google Assistant supported car devices
0:50.6	were announced, so Google Assistant is coming to Cars. Google
0:54.1	Assistant is coming to Google Maps on iOS and Android. It's already there, in
0:58.5	fact, to help you with navigation, music, and replying to texts. There's a new alarm clock with Google
1:05.5	assistant built in so anything Amazon can do, Google can do as well in terms of
1:10.7	bringing assistant to a universe of products.
1:12.8	Assistant is now integrated with the Hopper from DISH.
1:16.3	Sonos has confirmed that it is testing, turning Assistant on on its speakers.
1:21.8	Samsung TV integration is live but also a bunch of snazzy new
1:26.7	features were announced you can now check in to airline flights with assistant.
1:31.3	When the time comes to check in, no need to go to your
1:35.1	airline app, just tap a button on the lock screen and run through those baggage and
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