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Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

News, Tech News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Fitbit unveils a new smartwatch and lowers prices across the board, Samsung is working on two more foldable phones, Grab grabs $1.4 billion from Masa Son and Waymo finally found a way to make money. Sponsors: DataDogHQ.com/ridehome Metalab.co Links: Fitbit’s new $160 Versa Lite is a stripped-down version of its entry-level smartwatch (The Verge) Fitbit kills Alta, Alta HR, Flex 2, and Zip (VentureBeat) Samsung Working on Two More Foldable Smartphones (Bloomberg) WANT A FOLDABLE PHONE? HOLD OUT FOR REAL GLASS (Wired) Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritime Military Secrets (WSJ) Uber found not criminally liable in last year’s self-driving car death (QZ) Grab confirms $1.46B investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund (TechCrunch) Waymo Starts Selling Sensors to Lower Cost of Self-Driving Cars (Bloomberg) 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, March 6th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

0:09.0

Today Fitbit Unveills a new smart watch and lowers prices across the board.

0:14.0

Samsung is working on two more foldable phones.

0:17.0

Grab-Grams.

0:18.0

1.4 billion from Masa Son and Weimo finally found a way to make money.

0:22.0

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. and Weymo finally found a way to make money.

0:23.0

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

0:26.0

Fitbit has announced a new version of its Versa Smartwatch.

0:33.0

The Versa Light now comes in at $160.

0:38.0

The Versa Light is not any thinner or lighter

0:41.0

than the old Versa, though that is what the name would suggest, it's just cheaper.

0:46.1

And to get that way, it lost some stuff.

0:48.6

The Versa Light still has sleep and exercise trackers, still runs Fitbit OS OS but it won't have Wi-Fi it won't have

0:55.9

NFC or music playback or swim laps or stair climbing counts quoting the verge

1:01.2

Fitbit's renewed take on the smart watch appeared to have worked with the Versa,

1:06.0

which helped the company grow its smart watch revenue by 437% less than a year after the device was announced.

1:12.0

Now the company is hoping more affordable

1:14.2

versions of its wearables will boost that momentum with stripped down versions of

1:18.5

the Versa and the Ace that are up to $40 cheaper than their predecessors."

1:23.4

Indeed, Fitbit's trusted line of fitness trackers are all cheaper as well, the Inspire

1:30.0

and the Inspire HR and the Ace 2 2 which are replacing the Alta line of trackers.

1:36.0

In fact, that's the other news.

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