Wed. 09/30 – The New Pixel Phones, Chromecast and More From Today’s Google Event

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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All the news from the Google Launch Night. Say hello to Google TV. Say hello to a new Chromecast and the new Nest Audio smartspeaker. Say hello to the Pixel 4a 5G and the new Pixel 5. But is this a new pivot to midmarket for the Pixel line, or is it the end of the road? The grand unification of Facebook apps continues. And Rally is an interesting raise that lets you invest in… baseball cards? Sponsors: Liftoff.to Calm.com/techmeme Metalab.co Links: Here’s what the new Chromecast’s Google TV software looks like (The Verge) Google launches Nest Audio speaker, successor to Google Home, available Oct. 5 for $99 (9to5Google) Google's Pixel 5 includes 5G and an ultrawide camera for $699 (Engadget) Facebook introduces cross-app communication between Messenger and Instagram, plus other features (TechCrunch) Microsoft’s Bing Will Have Key Slot on Some New Android Phones (Bloomberg) Rally raises $17M to expand a platform that lets you invest in (but not buy) collectibles (TechCrunch) 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, September 30th, 2020.
0:07.1	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.0	Today, all the news from the Google Launch Night event.
0:11.5	Say hello to Google TV, say hello to a new
0:15.1	Chromecast, and the new Nest Audio smart speaker. Say hello to the
0:19.2	Pixel 4A5G and the new Pixel 5. But is this a new pivot to mid market for the Pixel line or is it the end of the line?
0:28.0	The grand unification of Facebook apps continues and Rally is an interesting raise that lets you invest in baseball cards.
0:35.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:38.0	The Google Launch Night event just ended and if we've all been wondering why they chose to call it launch night
0:47.8	We now know we were anticipating new pixel phones of course, but what Google led with and what they seemingly
0:54.1	really leaned into and want us to know about was Google TV in essence Google is
1:00.9	taking a page out of Apple TV and is trying to be a one-stop curated solution
1:06.2	to all of the streaming content that is out there. As Chris Welch at Virge says, quote,
1:13.3	unlike TVs from Sony and set-top boxes
1:15.5	from NVIDIA and other brands that run
1:17.2	the traditional version of Android TV,
1:19.2	Google has created a new Google TV layer
1:21.6	atop the operating system that completely replaces the old home screen
1:24.9	experience. Instead of letting you customize the home screen, Android TV gives up some apps.
1:32.4	Android TV gives some apps like Netflix and YouTube their own dedicated rows that you can move around or get rid of.
1:38.0	Google TV is all about aggregation.
1:40.0	It brings together content from all the streaming services you're subscribed to and lists them all side by side in Netflix like rows of recommendations.
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