Alberto and Paul are back after a short month off. Life happens, but they’re back to give you a quick mid-year review of the tech that they’re most interested in for 2018. There’s still a lot of 2018 left, but between now and the new year, here’s what we’ve got our eyes on. 

In this episode, Paul manages to keep his cool as Alberto’s allergies plot to render him unable to coherently speak. When not choking, we manage to discuss a movie nearly a decade in the making – Avengers: Infinity War. We talk about the ethics (or lack thereof) behind Google’s Duplex AI bot, and Uber’s self-driving software killed a woman and no one seemed to care. 

Sources:

Android Authority Google io Recap: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-io/

SmartCities Dive – Uber AV Software at Fault in Pedestrian Crash: https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/uber-av-software-fatal-pedestrian-crash-tempe-arizona/523075/ 

After recovering from the plague, Alberto is back with co-host Paul Combs of the C & C Geekcast to chop it up and discuss ZTE and Huawei leaving the US mobile phone market, the aftermath of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, and we make early predictions in the Infinity War death pool. 

Sources: 

ZTE Banned via AndroidCentral: https://www.androidcentral.com/zte-banned-using-us-based-hardware-or-software-its-products

Huawei & ZTE Hit Hard via NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/technology/huawei-trade-war.html

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Testifying to Congress via Recode: https://www.recode.net/2018/4/9/17215922/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-testimony-congress-remarks