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Episode 76: Vero, Canadian ridesharing, and the Samsung Galaxy S9

Wrecked By Tech

English - February 28, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 42 MB
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Previous Episode: Episode 75: Everything is awful
Next Episode: Episode 77: Vero update, Instagram's next move, Facebook gets sued

In this week's news we talk about the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ (briefly), ridesharing apps in Manitoba (at length), Google Assistant helping you with your cell phone bills (an average conversation) and a trendy new social media app called Vero (for a very long time).
Speed round:
-Intel knew about Meltdown and Spectre and didn't tell the US government
-Apple now uses Google Cloud for iCloud services
-California has officially greenlit self-driving car testing
-YouTube Live will soon support automatic English captions during live streams
-BlackBerry shipped 850,000 KEYone phones in 2017

In this week's news we talk about the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ (briefly), ridesharing apps in Manitoba (at length), Google Assistant helping you with your cell phone bills (an average conversation) and a trendy new social media app called Vero (for a very long time).

Speed round:

-Intel knew about Meltdown and Spectre and didn't tell the US government

-Apple now uses Google Cloud for iCloud services

-California has officially greenlit self-driving car testing

-YouTube Live will soon support automatic English captions during live streams

-BlackBerry shipped 850,000 KEYone phones in 2017

Links:

Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ | The Official Samsung Galaxy SiteTappCar will be on Winnipeg streets Friday | Winnipeg SUNUber, Lyft continue Winnipeg prep even though they won't be ready to roll next week | CBC NewsStudies are increasingly clear: Uber, Lyft congest cities | AP NewsKoodo and Telus expand on Google Assistant integration, explain how it will work | MobilesyrupVero - True Social | VeroVero Manifesto — Vero - True Social | VeroSamsung’s Bixby smart speaker is coming in the second half of 2018 | The VergeIntel didn’t warn US government about CPU security flaws until they were public | The VergeApple confirms it now uses Google Cloud for iCloud services | The VergeCalifornia Welcomes Self-Driving Cars Without Humans Inside | WIREDYouTube live streams will soon include automatic captions | The VergeTCL shipped 850,000 BlackBerry KEYone smartphones in 2017 | Mobilesyrup