Wed. 07/17 - Neuralink and Boston Dynamics Are Ready For Their Closeup

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Google says Project Dragonfly is dead, Apple might be producing its own original podcasts, the Switch regular gets a refresh, and two long-time interesting companies: Neuralink and Boston Dynamics are ready for the spotlight. Sponsors: Castro SVB.com/next Links: Antitrust: Commission opens investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct of Amazon (The European Commission) A Google VP Told The US Senate The Company Has “Terminated” The Chinese Search App Dragonfly (BuzzFeed News) Apple Plans to Bankroll Original Podcasts to Fend Off Rivals (Bloomberg) New Nintendo Switch model will have much better battery life (Polygon) Microsoft wins multibillion-dollar cloud deal from AT&T (CNBC) Elon Musk’s Neuralink Takes Baby Steps to Wiring Brains to the Internet (NYTimes) BOSTON DYNAMICS’ ROBOTS ARE PREPARING TO LEAVE THE LAB — IS THE WORLD READY? (The Verge) Education publisher Pearson to phase out print textbooks (BBC News) Get a podcast classified of your own. CLASSIFIED: Should users be allowed to gain value from the location data their friends share with them? Even if it's non-monetary value? If not, why not? We have created an experiment to probe into these questions. Our experiment is an app that allows users to collect and analyze hundreds of location data points that are currently being shared with them by their friends, but are not collected. When this data is collected and analyzed properly, users can gain insights on their friends' behavior, much like companies gain insight on everyone else's behavior by collecting or buying this data in bulk. We are looking for one journalist to cover this exclusively, and we figured the Techmeme ride home would be our best bet. We intend to shed some more light on privacy inconsistencies. If you are interested in this, please email us at press@whosintown.app, that is press @ whosintown dot app 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 Wednesday, July 17th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.3	Today Google says Project Dragonfly is officially dead.
0:13.5	Apple might be producing its own original podcast.
0:16.5	The Switch regular gets a refresh.
0:19.5	And two long time interesting companies.
0:22.1	Neurrelink and Boston Dynamics are ready for the spotlight.
0:25.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:28.0	We spoke about this yesterday, but it's worth mentioning that it actually happened.
0:36.8	The European Commission has announced a formal antitrust investigation into possible
0:41.4	anti-competitive conduct by Amazon in its dual role as a marketplace
0:46.4	and vendor itself on that self-same marketplace.
0:51.4	Quoting from the official announcement, when providing a Marketplace. Based on the Commission's preliminary fact-finding, Amazon appears to use competitively sensitive information about marketplace sellers, their products and transactions on the marketplace.
1:10.0	As part of its in-depth investigation, the Commission will look into the standard agreements
1:14.7	between Amazon and Marketplace Sellers, which allow Amazon's retail business to analyze and use
1:19.8	third-party seller data.
1:21.4	In particular, the Commission will focus on whether and how the use of
1:25.9	accumulated marketplace seller data by Amazon as a retailer affects competition. And the role of data in the selection of the winners of the buy box and the
1:37.6	impact of Amazon's potential use of competitively sensitive marketplace seller
1:42.3	information on that selection.
1:44.0	The buy box is displayed prominently on Amazon and allows customers to add items from a specific retailer directly into their shopping carts.
1:51.0	Winning the buy box seems key for marketplace sellers as a vast
1:55.2	majority of transactions are done through it."
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