Lyft wants to make its own autonomous car parts, Verizon gets caught throttling video, and an Indian company revolutionizing robots in warehouses.
With Shannon Morse, Tom Merritt and Len Peralta.

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Show Notes
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• News You Should Know
  • (01:50) Essential Phone available ‘in a few weeks’
  • (02:55) Samsung sent invites to August 23rd event
  • (03:40) Google will roll ‘feed’ service to mobile site but not desktop
  • (04:10) Elon Musk expects formal approvals to break ground later this year
• More Top Stories
  • (04:55) Lyft expects majority of its rides will be autonomous by 2021
  • (07:00) Nintendo files graphical trademarks in European Union
  • (08:50) Verizon testing video stream optimization cap at 10Mbps
  • (11:15) Office 365 revenue tops traditional Office licensing
  • (13:55) Delta using fingerprint as boarding pass at Reagan National airport
• Discussion
  • (17:00) Indian robots are marching into the world’s warehouses
    • Robot wars: Amazon has Kiva, Alibaba has Geek+, and there’s GreyOrange for the rest – Tech In Asia
    • Meet the robots making Amazon even faster – CNET News (video)
• Message of the Day
  • (25:05) John Clayton – Experience with Ecobee
  • (26:40) Gábor – Hungarian perspective on Net Neutrality

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