May 10th 2017
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Echo Show, Google I/O, Samsung Dex.
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Amazon announces the Echo Show, an Echo with a touch screen and video calling functionality. Google I/O is next week - what will we see? Guest host Jason Howell demonstrates the Dex, Samsung's phone dock that turns your Galaxy S8 into a desktop computer. What is Fuchsia, Google's new OS? Use Google Home API and a Raspberry Pi to create a smart candy dispenser. Google plans their own city. Hackers break SMS two factor authentication. America bans laptops on flights from Europe.
- Jason's Tool: Google search highlights events near you
- Jeff's Numbers: Snap and Yelp earnings
- Stacey's Thing: Notifi Smart Doorbell
- Stacey's dog Sophie's Tricks: twirl, sit, touch, walk
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Links
- Amazon Echo Show: Alexa-powered touchscreen speaker launches June 28
- Amazon unveils free calling and messaging with Alexa Calling
- Amazon invested millions in the startup Nucleus — then cloned its product for the new Echo
- Amazon to control 70 percent of the voice-controlled speaker market this year
- Harman Kardon’s Invoke speaker is a Cortana-powered take on an Amazon Echo
- Microsoft is planning to turn Windows 10 PCs into Amazon Echo competitors
- Google turns Rasberry Pi into a dirt cheap Home competitor
- This candy dispenser is the best possible use of Google’s new AIY kit
- Google's I/O 2017 app is out on the Play Store
- Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI
- With 40 New Original Shows, YouTube Targets TV’s Breadbasket
- Google Is Planning a 12-Acre High-Tech City in Canada
- Hands on with Samsung Dex
- Breaking: laptop ban extends to European flights
- Hackers exploited SS7, a protocol used by cellphone providers, to intercept two-factor codes sent to online banking customers
- Snap earnings
- Yelp loses fifth of value; blames Google, as ever
- Google Search will now help you find nearby events
- Google Photos can turn your pictures into a Mother’s Day movie