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Rivian's rejection of CarPlay and physical buttons in favor of voice and AI control sees to question safety, convenience, data control, and long-term car software support. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Jeff Gamet, Guy Serle, Web Bixby, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, and Jim Rea question whether Rivian has other motives, and then dive into Tesla updates, AI voice recreation of Stan Lee, Spider-Man ticket promotions, Dashlane concerns, and Andy Ihnatko's new site. MacVoices is supported by NordLayer. Secure your network & stay compliant with one toggle-ready platform. Get an exclusive offer: up to 22% off NordLayer yearly plans plus 10% on top with the coupon code: MACVOICES10 at NordLayer.com/macvoices. Try it risk-free—14-day money-back guarantee. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 CarPlay rejection, voice control, and Stan Lee's voice00:28 Rivian's anti-CarPlay position begins the discussion00:54 Why cars still need buttons and backup controls02:07 Voice AI latency and Siri-like frustrations02:28 Using cars as chatbots and where that idea breaks down03:46 Rivian's app-free vision and the limits of voice interaction05:02 Why phone-based assistants still matter in the car06:11 Location services, navigation, and route-based requests06:49 Apple Maps possibilities without automaker control07:43 AI assistants, missing service hooks, and driving distractions09:07 Multitasking while driving and the safety argument10:29 Physical buttons, cruise control, and unfamiliar rental cars11:41 How CarPlay and Android Auto create interface consistency12:11 Fully autonomous driving and the future of car interaction13:31 Data control as the real motivation behind automaker interfaces14:14 Phone upgrades, aging car hardware, and long-term software support15:47 Grok built into Tesla and real-world responsiveness17:23 Deep touchscreen menus and why voice interfaces appeal18:43 CarPlay gaps, Tesla software updates, and improving vehicle tech19:22 Tesla leasing, full self-driving, and subscription frustration21:53 Nintendo music service surprise and side conversation22:49 NordLayer sponsor message24:17 Stan Lee's AI voice and preserving distinctive performances25:06 Amazon Prime early access for Spider-Man tickets26:10 Theaters, home viewing, and changing movie experiences27:11 Dashlane security concerns and Andy Ihnatko's new site29:06 Post-WWDC plans and panelist contact information35:56 British Tech Network finale and related podcast projects37:21 Live show wrap-up and audience invitation38:50 Closing credits and support information Links: Rivian's software chief thinks you don't need CarPlay or buttonshttps://www.theverge.com/podcast/929940/rivian-wassym-bensaid-software-volkswagen-carplay-assistant-ai Nintendo Music just got a big update with support for Apple CarPlay and Android Autohttps://www.engadget.com/2185783/nintendo-music-just-got-a-big-update-with-support-for-apple-carplay-and-android-auto/ ElevenLabs partners with Stan Lee Universe for AI voicehttps://thenextweb.com/news/elevenlabs-stan-lee-voice-likeness-ai Amazon Prime members in the US can watch Spider-Man: Brand New Day two days earlyhttps://www.engadget.com/2185485/amazon-prime-us-spider-man-brand-new-day-advanced-screening-july-29/ Hackers brute-forced Dashlane 2FA, downloaded encrypted vaultshttps://thenextweb.com/news/dashlane-brute-force-attack-2fa-bypass-encrypted-vaults Andy Ihnatko launches Ihnatko.comhttps://sixcolors.com/link/2026/06/andy-ihnatko-launches-ihnatko-com/ Guests: Web Bixby has been in the insurance business for 40 years and has been an Apple user for longer than that.You can catch up with him on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but prefers Bluesky. Eric Bolden is into macOS, plants, sci-fi, food, and is a rural internet supporter. You can connect with him on Twitter, by email at embolden@mac.com, on Mastodon at @eabolden@techhub.social, on his blog, Trending At Work, and as co-host on The Vision ProFiles podcast. Jeff Gamet is a technology blogger, podcaster, author, and public speaker. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and the TextExpander Evangelist for Smile. He has presented at Macworld Expo, RSA Conference, several WordCamp events, along with many other conferences. You can find him on several podcasts such as The Mac Show, The Big Show, MacVoices, Mac OS Ken, This Week in iOS, and more. Jeff is easy to find on social media as @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram, jeffgamet on LinkedIn., @jgamet@mastodon.social on Mastodon, and on his YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/jgamet. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65 and on Mastodon at @daveg65@mastodon.cloud. Marty Jencius, Ph.D.,is a counselor educator and technology pioneer who has spent 30 years bringing emerging tech into his field — from founding one of the first professional listservs (CESNET-L) to podcasting, virtual reality, and now AI and AR. He is the founder of ThePodTalk.net, where he produces Vision ProFiles, The Old Mac Gang, A.I. Productivity Workflow, The Tech Savvy Professor, 15 Minute Bytes, The Neo Notebook, and Fade to Chat: Golden Age Cinema. He is also a regular panelist on MacVoices Live!, In Touch with iOS, and The Mac Show. Find him on Bluesky and Mastodon. Jim Rea built his own computer from scratch in 1975, started programming in 1977, and has been an independent Mac developer continuously since 1984. He is the founder of ProVUE Development, and the author of Panorama X, ProVUE's ultra fast RAM based database software for the macOS platform. He's been a speaker at MacTech, MacWorld Expo and other industry conferences. Follow Jim at provue.com and via @provuejim@techhub.social on Mastodon. Guy Serle, best known for being one of the co-hosts of the MyMac Podcast, sincerely apologizes for anything he has done or caused to have happened while in possession of dangerous podcasting equipment. He should know better but being a blonde from Florida means he's probably incapable of understanding the damage he has wrought. Guy is also the author of the novel, The Maltese Cube. You can follow his exploits on Twitter, catch him on Mac to the Future on Facebook, at @Macparrot@mastodon.social, and find everything at VertShark.com. 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Rivian's rejection of CarPlay and physical buttons in favor of voice and AI control sees to question safety, convenience, data control, and long-term car software support. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Jeff Gamet, Guy Serle, Web Bixby, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, and Jim Rea question whether Rivian has other motives, and then dive into Tesla updates, AI voice recreation of Stan Lee, Spider-Man ticket promotions, Dashlane concerns, and Andy Ihnatko's new site. MacVoices is supported by NordLayer. Secure your network & stay compliant with one toggle-ready platform. Get an exclusive offer: up to 22% off NordLayer yearly plans plus 10% on top with the coupon code: MACVOICES10 at NordLayer.com/macvoices. Try it risk-free—14-day money-back guarantee. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 CarPlay rejection, voice control, and Stan Lee's voice 00:28 Rivian's anti-CarPlay position begins the discussion 00:54 Why cars still need buttons and backup controls 02:07 Voice AI latency and Siri-like frustrations 02:28 Using cars as chatbots and where that idea breaks down 03:46 Rivian's app-free vision and the limits of voice interaction 05:02 Why phone-based assistants still matter in the car 06:11 Location services, navigation, and route-based requests 06:49 Apple Maps possibilities without automaker control 07:43 AI assistants, missing service hooks, and driving distractions 09:07 Multitasking while driving and the safety argument 10:29 Physical buttons, cruise control, and unfamiliar rental cars 11:41 How CarPlay and Android Auto create interface consistency 12:11 Fully autonomous driving and the future of car interaction 13:31 Data control as the real motivation behind automaker interfaces 14:14 Phone upgrades, aging car hardware, and long-term software support 15:47 Grok built into Tesla and real-world responsiveness 17:23 Deep touchscreen menus and why voice interfaces appeal 18:43 CarPlay gaps, Tesla software updates, and improving vehicle tech 19:22 Tesla leasing, full self-driving, and subscription frustration 21:53 Nintendo music service surprise and side conversation 22:49 NordLayer sponsor message 24:17 Stan Lee's AI voice and preserving distinctive performances 25:06 Amazon Prime early access for Spider-Man tickets 26:10 Theaters, home viewing, and changing movie experiences 27:11 Dashlane security concerns and Andy Ihnatko's new site 29:06 Post-WWDC plans and panelist contact information 35:56 British Tech Network finale and related podcast projects 37:21 Live show wrap-up and audience invitation 38:50 Closing credits and support information Links: Rivian's software chief thinks you don't need CarPlay or buttons https://www.theverge.com/podcast/929940/rivian-wassym-bensaid-software-volkswagen-carplay-assistant-ai Nintendo Music just got a big update with support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto https://www.engadget.com/2185783/nintendo-music-just-got-a-big-update-with-support-for-apple-carplay-and-android-auto/ ElevenLabs partners with Stan Lee Universe for AI voice https://thenextweb.com/news/elevenlabs-stan-lee-voice-likeness-ai Amazon Prime members in the US can watch Spider-Man: Brand New Day two days early https://www.engadget.com/2185485/amazon-prime-us-spider-man-brand-new-day-advanced-screening-july-29/ Hackers brute-forced Dashlane 2FA, downloaded encrypted vaults https://thenextweb.com/news/dashlane-brute-force-attack-2fa-bypass-encrypted-vaults Andy Ihnatko launches Ihnatko.com https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/06/andy-ihnatko-launches-ihnatko-com/ Guests: Web Bixby has been in the insurance business for 40 years and has been an Apple user for longer than that.You can catch up with him on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but prefers Bluesky. Eric Bolden is into macOS, plants, sci-fi, food, and is a rural internet supporter. You can connect with him on Twitter, by email at embolden@mac.com, on Mastodon at @eabolden@techhub.social, on his blog, Trending At Work, and as co-host on The Vision ProFiles podcast. Jeff Gamet is a technology blogger, podcaster, author, and public speaker. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and the TextExpander Evangelist for Smile. He has presented at Macworld Expo, RSA Conference, several WordCamp events, along with many other conferences. You can find him on several podcasts such as The Mac Show, The Big Show, MacVoices, Mac OS Ken, This Week in iOS, and more. Jeff is easy to find on social media as @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram, jeffgamet on LinkedIn., @jgamet@mastodon.social on Mastodon, and on his YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/jgamet. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65 and on Mastodon at @daveg65@mastodon.cloud. Marty Jencius, Ph.D.,is a counselor educator and technology pioneer who has spent 30 years bringing emerging tech into his field — from founding one of the first professional listservs (CESNET-L) to podcasting, virtual reality, and now AI and AR. He is the founder of ThePodTalk.net, where he produces Vision ProFiles, The Old Mac Gang, A.I. Productivity Workflow, The Tech Savvy Professor, 15 Minute Bytes, The Neo Notebook, and Fade to Chat: Golden Age Cinema. He is also a regular panelist on MacVoices Live!, In Touch with iOS, and The Mac Show. Find him on Bluesky and Mastodon. Jim Rea built his own computer from scratch in 1975, started programming in 1977, and has been an independent Mac developer continuously since 1984. He is the founder of ProVUE Development, and the author of Panorama X, ProVUE's ultra fast RAM based database software for the macOS platform. He's been a speaker at MacTech, MacWorld Expo and other industry conferences. Follow Jim at provue.com and via @provuejim@techhub.social on Mastodon. Guy Serle, best known for being one of the co-hosts of the MyMac Podcast, sincerely apologizes for anything he has done or caused to have happened while in possession of dangerous podcasting equipment. He should know better but being a blonde from Florida means he's probably incapable of understanding the damage he has wrought. Guy is also the author of the novel, The Maltese Cube. You can follow his exploits on Twitter, catch him on Mac to the Future on Facebook, at @Macparrot@mastodon.social, and find everything at VertShark.com. 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Description The Future of Tech is Here. Subscribe to our Newsletter:https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/ Check Out UPX:https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ In this presentation from Ultimate Partner Live, industry analyst Jay McBain breaks down the monumental macroeconomic shifts rewriting the tech sector in 2026. https://youtu.be/r0qTDyw97Gs As the industry rapidly approaches a $6.07 trillion valuation, driven by massive AI infrastructure investments from Sam Altman and the “Magnificent Seven,” traditional sales and channel models are fundamentally collapsing. McBain reveals how buyer demographics have transformed to an integration-first millennial base, why marketplace ecosystems now command over half of all partner-funded deals, and how a tiny elite of just 1,000 tech service providers control two-thirds of global tech revenue. Learn the exact mechanics behind how Microsoft out-partnered AWS to win 26 straight quarters of dominant growth and how your business can deploy an algorithmic early warning system to capture massive wallet share before competitors even step into the boardroom. Key Takeaways Over half of the Fortune 500 companies vanish every 20 years because their leadership fails to anticipate macroeconomic technological cycles. The true opportunity in the $6.5 trillion AI boom lies not in single vendor products, but in the hardware, software, services, and telecom ecosystem surrounding them. Indirect tech sales are undergoing a structural shift toward direct cloud hyperscaler models driven heavily by Nvidia's core infrastructure client base. Modern business deals are won or lost months before the point of sale based on the average of 6.3 partners surrounding a customer’s environment. Over 51% of tech buyers are now millennials who prioritize software integration capabilities and digital marketplaces over traditional human sales interactions. Tech service economics are pivoting aggressively away from upfront margins toward point-based multi-partner funding across subscription cycles. If you're ready to lead through change, elevate your business, and achieve extraordinary outcomes through the power of partnership—this is your community. At Ultimate Partner® we want leaders like you to join us in the Ultimate Partner Experience – where transformation begins. Key Tags Nvidia AI buildout, $7 trillion AI opportunity, cloud ecosystem decade, Microsoft vs AWS growth, multi-partner cloud deals, digital marketplace migration, millennial B2B buyers, B2B tech subscription economics, tokenized micro consumption, tech services wallet share, hybrid cloud infrastructure, 28 customer moments, IT services industry growth, telecom spend breakdown, channel chief strategy, managed service providers MSP, global systems integrators GSI, software integration first, point-based vendor incentives, automated co-selling workflows Transcript JAY McBAIN AUDIO PODCAST [00:00:00] Jay McBain: So to go back to that story about the 53% of companies who are gonna fail, one of us is gonna be asked to write the book, but chapter one is always you Blame the CEO. [00:00:13] Vince Menzione: We just came back from Ultimate Partner live in Bellevue, Washington, where we hosted incredible leaders for two amazing days. Come join us for this next session where we explore the tectonic shifts we’ve all been seeing. With that, I am incredibly blessed to invite a friend of mine to the stage. I have a quick little side note, like I found an old LinkedIn post from this gentleman from like many years ago, like 20 years ago. [00:00:39] Vince Menzione: And I wasn’t really that nice to you on that LinkedIn post. Like, oh, like this is before Jay became the Jay, that we all know Jay to be j. But he was in the space and I was at Microsoft doing something and he reached out about something. It was kind of rude, Jay. I was like, oh my gosh. I can’t believe. But Jay has been a great friend. [00:00:54] Vince Menzione: When we started the podcast back up, uh, during COVID we started doing podcasts together. When we moved to the studio, Jay was the first person in the studio. He’s always got a spot, uh, at our events. He’s s Spot Art, and, and he’s a great friend and supporter of Ultimate Partner Jay McBain. For those of you who don’t know him, Jay, welcome. [00:01:13] Vince Menzione: Thank you, sir. [00:01:22] Jay McBain: 31 days ago, we landed Artemis two. The furthest humans have ever been away from the planet Earth 57 years ago. We landed on the moon in the 56 years. Between those two moments, the tech industry has been the fastest growing industry in the world. Every single year we moved from the space race to the technology race, and we’re just getting started. [00:01:46] Jay McBain: If you’re old enough, you’ll recognize the mainframe and mini era for 20 years. You’ll recognize a young disheveled Bill Gates showing up in Boca Raton, Florida for, uh, August the 12th, 1981 launch, where Bill thought that every one of us would’ve a PC in our home, and IBM thought they were gonna sell 10,000 of them to hobbyists. [00:02:12] Jay McBain: 1999, a small startup from an executive who just left Oracle in San Francisco named Mark Benioff. A couple of years later, Jeff Bezos went into a boardroom and said, listen, we’ve spent a lot of money building infrastructure to our busiest day, Christmas, black Friday. You’re telling me this stuff sits idle 10 or 20% for the rest of the year. [00:02:35] Jay McBain: Why don’t we rent that out to others? Got laughed outta that boardroom and then got made of fun of on magazine covers. Maybe you should just tend the store, let the adults talk about technology. In March of 2023, our neighbors, our friends, our family saw DeepFakes. They saw poetry, they saw music, and they came to us as tech people and said, did we just light up Skynet? [00:03:03] Jay McBain: Now every one of these 20 year eras, this is the Taylor Swift version of our industry. Every single one of these eras triggers the fastest growing product in history. Today it’s actually Chacha bt first to a billion users. It triggers a new, richest person in the world, bill Gates, to Jeff Bezos. Now, Elon Musk is the first to sign a trillion dollar pay package, and it’s not for car. [00:03:27] Jay McBain: It’s not for cars. It also triggers a most valuable company in the world change. And today that’s nvidia. These are monumental changes in our industry and they’re monumental changes in partnering every single time. And it also links to our customers. If you take a 20 year view of business, one era, and, and think about the AI era, you know, at the start of it here, if you’re to grab the Fortune 500 magazine from 20 years ago and start to flip through it, 53% of the companies in there no longer exist. [00:04:06] Jay McBain: Every 20 year cycle, we lose over half of the biggest companies in the world. These are the companies that have very deep pockets to buy their way outta problems. If you’re not in the Fortune 571% of tech companies don’t make it 10 years. These are the changes that cost industries. There are changes that cost really big companies and the decisions we make, the trends we’re in right now, in 2026 will be written about in the future. [00:04:39] Jay McBain: This new era, a lot of big numbers being thrown around. Vince’s best friend talk about a six and a half trillion dollar AI opportunity, but it’s not Microsoft’s tam. Microsoft is chasing about a trillion dollars of this. And the ecosystem, the hardware, the software, the services, the telecom is gonna make up the rest. [00:05:04] Jay McBain: It is an ecosystem. Every time these big numbers are thrown, the word ecosystem is always thrown around it. Not to be outdone, Sam Altman’s talking about a $7 trillion build out. The world economy this year, the world GDP will be 126. These are material numbers to world GDP, but even better, they’re both larger than our entire industry is today. [00:05:27] Jay McBain: So what took 56 years of the fastest growing industry this year will be $6.07 trillion. Big numbers, but it’s easier to think about it in terms of a dollar that our customers spend in that dollar. They’re gonna spend 25 cents on hardware. They’re gonna spend 25 cents on software. So for anyone that read the memo 15 years ago, that software’s gonna eat the world, there’s still a dollar a hardware to run every dollar of that software. [00:05:57] Jay McBain: And whether you’re thinking humanoid robots or whichever future you’re envisioning, there’s going to be a dollar of hardware to run every dollar of software for the next 20 years. There’s over 25 cents now in IT services, and in many cases, these services are growing faster than the product categories and just under 25 cents in telecom, that’s how it breaks out today. [00:06:19] Jay McBain: And this industry, which took 56 years to get to this point, is gonna double in size in the next three to five years. We already have two and a half trillion of that seven raised and being spent. Part of the reason Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world. Now our industry, uh, you talk about ultimate partnerships. [00:06:40] Jay McBain: Our industry traditionally, and world trade by the way, is 75% indirect. The dealerships, the agencies, the brokers, the resellers, the retailers, the franchisees, the gas stations, the grocery stores, the pharmacies, all 27 industries sell indirect. You gotta think back the last time you bought something direct. [00:07:01] Jay McBain: Well, I bought a Dell from that dude in the nineties. Cool. Well, Dell Technologies is now 60% indirect. Well, I bought insurance. Direct is 15 minutes. Could save me 15%. Well, Geico last year sold more insurance through agencies and brokers than they did direct. This is the world now. We used to be 75% indirect four years ago. [00:07:26] Jay McBain: Then it went to 73.2, then it went to 70.1 and it then it went to 66.7. By the way, marketplace is in these numbers indirect. It’s not marketplace causing this change. It’s one company, Nvidia. Nvidia has seven customers. The magnificent seven, uh, half of them are in the room right now that every morning we wake up to a hundred billion dollars press release about this $7 trillion buildout. [00:07:56] Jay McBain: What’s interesting is indirect sales in our industry is growing by revenue. It increases every year, just not at the pace that this AI build out is happening direct with seven companies. But the reason we’re all here, and I think the core reason that Vince is building this community is this, you know, Microsoft forever has measured and been very vocal. [00:08:21] Jay McBain: About 96% of their deals have partners in them. Kind of who cares, who collects the money. We care about the moments, the 28 moments before the customer makes a purchase. We care about every 30 days forever, because two thirds of our industry, over $4 trillion now is subscription consumption based. Winning a customer today is only winning the first 30 days. [00:08:46] Jay McBain: We care about this cycle. We care about who surrounds our customer. So six years ago, I stood on a big stage and said, you know, we went through a decade of sales. You know, in 1999, you thought you were born to be a salesperson. You’re managing your territory with your gut. Well, a few years later, you were introduced to the science of selling. [00:09:07] Jay McBain: You know, 10 years later you thought as a marketer, you sit around a cocktail party joking with your friends, 50% of my marketing dollars are wasted. I just don’t know which 50%. Really funny. In 2009 until every 58-year-old CMO got replaced by a 38-year-old growth hacker. Coming in with Marketo and Eloqua and Pardot and HubSpot, and 15,505 as of yesterday, MarTech and iTech tools, ninjas in marketing, they wouldn’t let a nickel go through without measuring. [00:09:43] Jay McBain: Now we understand 96% of deals and partners that surround it. No deal is gonna be won or lost in this era without partnering effectively. So we had to have this decade of the ecosystem. One of the ways we’re tracking is by outsiders. You know, Salesforce every year publishes the state of sales and they’ve got, you know, the number one CRM in the world. [00:10:05] Jay McBain: So they get to go talk to all the CROs, all the salespeople in the world. And as of this year, a couple months ago, 94% of every salesperson in every industry in the world uses partners every single day. You wanna see what this number was six years ago. Also, 89% of salespeople around the world don’t think they’re going to club this year without partners. [00:10:29] Jay McBain: So this is a big moment for us, halfway through the decade ecosystem, but we’re only halfway through. We’re starting to understand now at a more granular level. What partnering means. It’s not theory, it’s not flywheels. It’s not really cute. McKinsey slides that we keep showing to our board saying how important partnering is. [00:10:51] Jay McBain: We’re trying to get to the very specific level of the 6.3 partners on average that surround the deal and what they’re doing. How their business model works, and that’s average if I’m working on a public sector deal. I was at a Red Hat conference yesterday talking sovereignty. If I’m in an enterprise or a large public sector deal, it’s north of 10 partners in the deal. [00:11:15] Jay McBain: So we’re starting to understand what used to be this, this, you know, you’ve been the fastest growing industry for 56 straight years. Every single professional services person in every industry has come in to join the fund. Over 90% of accountants are tech services firms. Over 90% of marketing agencies are tech services agencies. [00:11:36] Jay McBain: All of this 250,000 software companies, a million emerging comp tech companies, the half a million VAR that have been in that traditional channel. The managed service providers, all of these 20 different partner types, millions of companies, tens of millions of people competing for 6.3 spots. Around the customer. [00:11:58] Jay McBain: That’s it. Luckily, there’s 141 million global customers to compete for. There’s, there’s some open slots that you can go find, and that’s the point. Our industry never had our own Fortune 500. We always talk to, you know, these partners and GSIs are doing this and SI are doing that. And we never really had a view of capability and capacity or what our own TAM was inside of that partnering. [00:12:25] Jay McBain: And so we set out and we would’ve loved, you know, chat GPT or Gemini or Claude or any of those tools to do this. But there’s one problem in partnering with AI is that it doesn’t know one partner from the next. There’s a big digital sameness problem in our industry that every single partner, whether it’s Larry in the White van or Accenture, with 786,000 employees all say they do all things to all people all the time. [00:12:53] Jay McBain: 98% of them, 99% of them are private companies that don’t share their p and l. You can’t go into Microsoft’s LinkedIn system and find out how many employees, ’cause it’s a block system, it AI can’t see into it. So it just sees, and it’s a great pattern matching. Google, SEO can’t figure out who’s who, nor today can the large language models. [00:13:14] Jay McBain: ’cause all the things they’re trying to match, the transformers are trying to match. It all looks the same. Every tweet, every ebook, every website, every digital history looks the same. So this took us thousands of people hours across two years to do, to dig into every p and l to dig into every dollar of what they’re doing. [00:13:33] Jay McBain: But what was interesting is only a thousand partners in our industry do two thirds of all tech services. When you get into enterprise, it goes up to 80 to 90%. The partners in the middle, in Blue do more tech services. The 30 of them than the 970 partners in white on the outside, the 970 partners in White do more tech services than the next million combined. [00:14:03] Jay McBain: This is our industry in a nutshell. Every time we talk to a a vendor, every time we talk to a partner, every time we talk to a distributor, we’re now talking names, faces, and places. You you wanna talk sovereignty. Yesterday in Atlanta, 90% of sovereign conversations in public sector in the globe is handled by these companies here. [00:14:26] Jay McBain: Forget about how much you do with these partners today. You wanna chase the next column, which is the wallet share. And I was a channel chief for 17 years. I get the weekly report and I see a million dollar partner, another million dollar partner, sorted top to bottom. You don’t know which partners which, which of those million dollar partners is doing 1.2 million in your category. [00:14:46] Jay McBain: They deserve a baseball cap and a front row seat at your event as an MVP. The next partner right next to them is doing 10 million in your category. They’re only doing a million with you. ’cause customers are pulling them into it. Nine times outta 10. They’re leading with your competitor. So I don’t want that list anymore. [00:15:03] Jay McBain: I want the new list, which is showing me those $9 million opportunities. And I as a board member, as A CEO, as a CFO, as a CRO, I wanna see this list. And then I want to talk people, processes, programs, technology. What are we gonna do to go get our fair share of that 9 million? Where’s our lowest hanging fruit? [00:15:24] Jay McBain: How do we double our pipeline? How do we double the size of our company in three years? It’s all right here. Let’s have very specific conversations and move away from flywheels and move around from force multipliers and and things like that in partnering. Let’s figure out how this partner community is surrounded. [00:15:45] Jay McBain: What do 10 million people who have to be smart in front of their customers every single day, what do they read? Where do they go and who do they follow? It’s the law of a few. This is the old Malcolm Gladwell of tipping point 10 million people in the broader channel. A hundred percent of our TAM comes down to only a thousand watering holes. [00:16:08] Jay McBain: 12% of that entire audience. Doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s over A million. People love podcasts. Number one way they learn the Joe Rogan effect. In our industry, there’s 121 podcasts. These are all public lists. You can go get on my LinkedIn newsletter on canals, oia. But there’s 121 podcasts that drive him forward. [00:16:28] Jay McBain: Really high up on that list, actually number one on the list is ultimate partner, Vince. That’s how I met. ’cause I asked people, 10 million people, you love this. You walk your dog, you drive to work, you listen to podcasts. I’m not the biggest podcast fan. It’s not number one on my list, but it’s number one on theirs. [00:16:44] Jay McBain: They say, you know, you gotta meet this guy, Vince. It’s unbelievable how great these podcasts are. They’re ultimate. [00:16:54] Jay McBain: Then I talked to Vince and said, but Vince, you know, 35% of your community, the 10 million people love to come to events like this one. The hallway conversations, the hotel lobby bar last night. This is what we love to do, especially post pandemic. It’s the number one way we learn. We learn from our peers, we learn from those around us, and, and the learn from the conversations we have here. [00:17:17] Jay McBain: We always remember these moments, you know, years and years later. There’s 352 choices. I’m going to five of them this week in five different cities. It’s a lot of coverage, but again, it’s a tighter li list of how people work. The magazine lists 106 of them associations like Conter. Now the GTIA peer groups, there’s 15 different spheres of influence, but only a thousand places. [00:17:43] Jay McBain: I could walk you through billionaire, after billionaire, after billionaire in this industry and show you how they did this. How did Arne Bellini at ConnectWise? How did Austin McCord at Datto, how did Nerdio become a unicorn? How did threat locker and huntress move away from 6,500 cyber companies and become unicorns over and over and over again? [00:18:05] Jay McBain: It’s only one slide. Unicorns and billionaires are made here, and a lot of people don’t get it. So walking away from Bellevue, a thousand partners, top down, a thousand watering holes, bottoms up. You’ve covered a hundred percent of your tam. You do it better than 10% of your competitor, 10% better than your competitors. [00:18:27] Jay McBain: You win. You carry that on your resume into the next company. You get a bigger job at a bigger pay scale. Let’s just walk through some examples. Cyber 91.7% of it goes through the channel. Huge channel audience. You know, if you’re in MarTech, it’s only 10%, but this one happens to be all channel, but that’s not the story. [00:18:48] Jay McBain: For every dollar that the 6,500 cyber companies are trying to close, there’s $2 in services. Plot twist, the products are grown at 11, the services are grown at 12.6. Your partners are growing faster than you are, and they will continue to for the next, at least five years, probably 10. So when I’m here, five years from now, you’ll hear in me talk about a three to one split in cyber and then a four to one split in cyber. [00:19:18] Jay McBain: Now, when we’re in Miami a couple days ago is CrowdStrike, they’re talking about a $7 and 5 cent multiplier, chasing that two to one up higher. You look at managed services. Here’s a fun story. Managed services. 82% of customers who are man, uh, outsourcing more this year than last year. 650 billion in size. [00:19:38] Jay McBain: This is bigger than the entire SaaS industry. Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Marketo, NetSuite, HubSpot, 250,000. Others. This is bigger. It’s also bigger than all the Hyperscalers combined, not just AWS, Microsoft and Google, but Alibaba and Oracle and everybody down the list. This is a massive market also growing at double digits. [00:19:59] Jay McBain: So these are some big things and obviously we’re watching, you know, week in and week out, quarter in, quarter out, the Battle of Software and Battle of the Hyperscalers and things like that, and who’s growing at what pace and, and how partnering is connecting to all of this. You know, we watched a moment really early in the pandemic where Microsoft started growing faster than AWS and they haven’t stopped since 26 straight quarters. [00:20:27] Jay McBain: And you ask customers and say, you know, does Microsoft have a better product? And in most cases they say no. You know, AWS had a five year head start. Well, did they have a better price? Well, no, actually most cases Microsoft’s more expensive. Well, did did they have better promotion? Was their Super Bowl ad better? [00:20:44] Jay McBain: No, they’re both kind of crap. So you kind of ask the questions of what’s the only difference that could create growth above the leader in the market? Well, it’s place. More of the 6.3 partners are walking into those keyboard room meetings and drawing clouds up on the wall and labeling the Microsoft than they are AWS. [00:21:03] Jay McBain: Very simple. It’s never been about product. The best product in our industry has never won. And now the best way forward is that partnering moment, and this is the moment. So to go back to that story about the 53% of companies who are gonna fail, one of us is gonna be asked to write the book. And it could be the book like Kodak, they invented the product that ended up killing them. [00:21:26] Jay McBain: And it’s a woe is me story, but chapter one is always you blame the CEO. How could they not see those trends happening in 2026? How could they, you know, were they blind? Were they stuck in their own, you know, innovation chamber? Innovator’s dilemma, were they stuck in their own boardrooms? Why couldn’t they see? [00:21:46] Jay McBain: Well, chapter two, you, you blame the board. They have fiduciary responsibility, outsider view, and how could they not see it? But really, this is the future right here. If you take this slide and apply it 10 or 20 years from now to every failure and every success, these are the chapters of the book. Your buyer is now a millennial. [00:22:05] Jay McBain: As of last year, the 51% of our market is bought by people born after 1982. Different psychology, different behavior, different journey, different criteria, their integration. First buyers. The buy a product, 80% as good as the next one. If it works better in their environment. 94% of people won’t buy a car unless it has CarPlay or Android Auto. [00:22:26] Jay McBain: New Buyer. You have to be more integrated than your competitors. That’s a partnering story. The 6.3 partners. If you heard cyber, you need some great channel partnerships, but you need the other 5.3 partners as well, the consultants, the advisors, the designers, the architects, the implementers, the integrators, the manner service, all of the other partners. [00:22:44] Jay McBain: You need to know more of them than your competitors do, and have them label clouds with your name in them. You need better alliances. Even if you compete, you only compete in the morning. You’re best friends by the afternoon. You have to be tight with the hyperscalers, tight, with the big SaaS platforms, tight with cyber, tight with distribution, there are layers, seven layers to every deal. [00:23:04] Jay McBain: You gotta be tight in and have better alliances than your competitors. And then it all comes to the 28 moments, which I’m gonna end on, but the go to market of all of this, the co-selling, co-marketing, co-innovation, co-development, co keeping. This is it. Your product has to be good enough that somebody’s gonna renew it. [00:23:21] Jay McBain: Your Super Bowl has to be, you know, ad has to be good enough that people don’t, you know, shame you on social media. Your pricing has to be somewhere in a country mile of the bell curve of what the customer wants to pay. But successor failure is just here and platforms are synonymous with partnering. [00:23:40] Jay McBain: It’s our role now in the decade of the ecosystem to drive our companies forward. Marketplace. It’s probably the most predict, you know, great prediction we ever made. You know, growing at 82% compounded, it’s hard to predict ’cause it doubles almost every year. We were almost exact to the decimal point. Five years later now till 2030, we’re watching a second story, which is more interesting. [00:24:02] Jay McBain: If 96% of all deals have partners inside of them and there’s private offers and multi-partner offers and distributor sellers record all these funding mechanisms or services as a product. As of last week, over 50% of all deals in marketplaces now have partner funding. It means that while money changes hands differently, the respect and the recognition of what partners do is in the deal. [00:24:26] Jay McBain: We think that’s going to 59, but at some point, that’s gonna have to hit 96. ’cause to run the best programs, whether it’s an indirect sale, whether it’s a direct sale, whether it’s a marketplace deal, it doesn’t matter how money changes hands. What matters is we recognize the 6.3 partners. They’re not only making the deal happen bigger and faster, but renewing and enriching that every 30 days forever. [00:24:48] Jay McBain: When we watch, you know, billion dollar clubs and when we read all the press releases and all the hubbub about how fast this is growing and who, which companies are behind all this. When I’m quoted in some of these press releases, it’s because of this. You know, CrowdStrike, you know, brags are a billion dollars in a single year, but inside of that, they’re showing that 91% growth in marketplaces, which is pretty phenomenal for any company to almost double in size every single year. [00:25:17] Jay McBain: What’s more phenomenal is they’re growing the channel piece of it, 3548%. That green part of it is growing. Companies that understand platform and have people and processes and programs and technology to do it are winning. And they’re getting recognition and partners are starting to join the Billion Dollar Club who don’t sell a product, but are also winning at Extreme Scale. [00:25:44] Jay McBain: So talk about those partner 1000 and who are leaning in to win at this level. As well as everything changes, traditional billing moved into subscription models, moved into consumption models. Now we’re being tokenized to death multi it’s, it’s in this mode of micro consumption. There’s no chance there was little chance in subscription consumption that would be resold. [00:26:09] Jay McBain: You don’t buy Netflix from the cable guy in the white van. There’s zero chance when you’re buying tokens at a buck a piece that that’s going through any indirect sale. This continues to grow. Now the tectonic shifts is what happens when money changes hands differently. These old programs that we used to all write hundreds of different boxes, we checked every day on deal reg and trainings and all the other things are changing. [00:26:35] Jay McBain: To this, you’ll get these slides, by the way, in high res, inside of this now is the customer. For the first time ever, 45 years later, we have the customer in the middle of what we do, the 28 moments in green before they buy the seven layer stack and the partners inside it. The implementation. The integration, the managed services in a cycle that never ends, and two thirds of our industry. [00:26:55] Jay McBain: With the customer in the middle, we can now move money around to the different moments. It’s not all landing in front or backend margins or market development funds or new customer bonuses or spiffs. It’s landing where it needs to land. Over 400 companies now, pretty much led by Microsoft 400 companies are in a point system right now and 400 more. [00:27:18] Jay McBain: We’re working kind of behind the scenes to get that announced in the next 12 months. This is a total changeover in terms of how economics work and partners are yelling over half of us. I don’t care. Don’t call me a VAR anymore. Don’t call me an MSP. Don’t call me a regional system integrator. I do the consulting over half the time. [00:27:36] Jay McBain: I do the design, I do the implementations, I do the managed services, and 44% of us are vibe coding. On weekends. We’re not happy. Just on the services side. We wanna join the seven layer tech stack as well. These are partners growing faster than their vendors by understanding this cycle and where to show up and where the money is in ai. [00:27:56] Jay McBain: And the number one thing they’re asking for is not more leads, which they did for 45 years. The number one thing is now recognized for what I do. I’ve never just been a cash register. We’re completely now past this idea of a channel being a channel of distribution, and now a channel being this platform for the future. [00:28:16] Jay McBain: As we lay that on top of ai, the first couple of years of AI has really been consumer driven. The 95% failure rate that MIT reported last year is now 70%. That’s the failure to get from proof of concept to production. That 70 will be 50 by the summer we’re moving now in business, the maturity rates are going up at the end customer and in 88% of cases, that’s because of the channel. [00:28:43] Jay McBain: They’re working with partners. They’re not vibe coding themselves and working in little skunkwork groups. They’re working with partners to make it happen, and it now becomes the partner’s number one growth opportunity. I can grow at 11 or 12% in cyber every year. Compounded I can grow in 10% in managed services. [00:29:03] Jay McBain: You know, those are great double digit growth ’cause my customers are growing at 2.7% and I can go four x my customer, but I can go 10 x my customer if I have the right services built around ai. And this compounded growth rate and that big number in 2 20 32, 267 is what’s got those top 1000 partners obsessed. [00:29:25] Jay McBain: And your companies are leading with ai. Now you need to connect to those AI services. You need to get partners on this scale of growth. And they will be adding your name inside every cloud. They write on every whiteboard, but 82% of partners around the world, you know, we survey 25,000 of them aren’t ready, and they’re blaming vendors for not being ready, and they’re telling them exactly the workshops and the training that they need to get ready for this cycle. [00:29:53] Jay McBain: 82% of our entire partner, tens of millions of people, aren’t ready to grow at 35% and they need our help. Last thing I’ll say about AI is it’s the first time from client server to cloud, edge to cloud that it’s been segment driven. SMB alone has one, you know, six different segments, one to nine, 10 to 24, 25 to 49, et cetera. [00:30:18] Jay McBain: Mid-market into enterprise. No one that runs a restaurant is calling Jensen to buy a GPU to put next to the stove. No one’s calling Sam or Dario or anyone at Anthropic or OpenAI directly. They’re waiting. If you run a restaurant with all the people running around with tablets, you’ve invested in toast or square or clover or one of the platforms to run your business. [00:30:41] Jay McBain: A hundred different things. And you’re gonna wait for toast to work with a hyperscaler and build out the capabilities genetically. So when they see a spike in Uber Eats orders, they automatically place a food order and automatically change the staffing to deliver on it. That’s what the restaurant’s waiting for, and there’s no one calling and having a big a agent conversation. [00:31:03] Jay McBain: But even if you go into hundreds of people in medium sized business, every one of the vice presidents have their tech stack already built. I talked about the marketing person already, but the HR leader has one, and everybody’s got their seven layer stack. They’re not calling to buy a GPU and they’re not calling to, you know, bring in open AI directly or, or anthropic. [00:31:22] Jay McBain: They’re waiting for the platform they built to integrate together ag agenta capabilities. Everybody’s in wait mode up until enterprise and public, large public sector. So we are looking at this market and at 90% of that AI market is run by those thousand companies, and the rest of the millions of partners are helping in terms of how these businesses are gonna change at that level. [00:31:46] Jay McBain: Here’s where I end. You know, the 28 moments used to be a theory. It used to be a flywheel. How do we buy a car? [00:31:55] Vince Menzione: Well, we Google it, [00:31:57] Jay McBain: 81% of us now, 94% of us use large language models. We find out that there’s 365 brands of car. I’d have to test drive one every day of the year to get through them all. So we start narrowing these things down. [00:32:09] Jay McBain: We configure it. We put our rims on it, we color it. We download the invoice price. We download the backend rebates this month, whether I buy it in May or June, we find out what 5,000 people paid for our exact car within 50 miles of us. And then we don’t wanna go to the dealer because we know more than the salesperson, the manager ever will. [00:32:26] Jay McBain: We know what we’re gonna pay within, you know, dollars or cents. Just carvana the car. Hand me the keys. Let’s just forget the whole eight hour back and forth. I’ll get you a deal thing. I’m smarter than you in technology. Our customers are smarter than us, smarter than salespeople. That’s why 75% of millennials don’t wanna talk to a salesperson. [00:32:48] Jay McBain: They want to end digitally, and by the way, they’re not gonna send a fax after 28 digital moments. They’re gonna end on a digital marketplace. This is all demographics. It’s not hard to see where it’s going, but we’re getting into names, faces, places again. What if every dollar of your tam, the board, the CEO, runs around with their big multi-billion dollar number, they’re chasing? [00:33:09] Jay McBain: What if every single deal looks the exact same? This is a deal with AstraZeneca, A real deal, real customer spending millions of dollars. We know it starts in October, it ends in April. It’s a six month cycle. We see what they read, the MQ ls at the beginning. We see the sales demo moments. We see ISV, but we’ve never had the light blue boxes. [00:33:30] Jay McBain: What if we as a team could overlay the 6.3 partners in this deal? And when you find out a couple things. Here’s where I end. In December, five deals were one, three of them by NTT. The person at NTT probably coaches AstraZeneca’s, you know, kids’ soccer team. They probably have a cottage together at the lake. [00:33:50] Jay McBain: For the last 20 years, if the person at NTT worked at Deloitte, Deloitte would’ve run this deal. But Software One and Yash are both there, so we understand that when they were drawing clouds up on the wall in the boardroom in December, this deal was won and lost there. It was not won and lost at the point of sale. [00:34:09] Jay McBain: So what if you knew more about this and could see every dollar in your tam? You had an early warning system that this was happening. Two things jump out at this now that we’re in Bellevue. AWS was touched twice in this deal, directly in the marketing cycle and the sales cycle. AWS lost this deal. Here’s an example of Microsoft winning a deal with Microsoft never being touched. [00:34:34] Jay McBain: For some reason, NTT who won, who won AWS’s partner of the year a couple years ago led with Microsoft, so did Software one, Microsoft’s biggest reseller in Europe, and as did Yash, they all led with Microsoft and without Microsoft, knowing Microsoft took a multimillion dollar deal away from their competitors by winning in December. [00:34:53] Jay McBain: That’s one. Second. These partners didn’t just show up other than soccer and cottages. They didn’t show up in December. It went closed one in their CRM system. Back in the summer, August, September, we already knew AstraZeneca was in market, spending millions of dollars. We didn’t need them to read an ebook or go to an event to find that out. [00:35:17] Jay McBain: We knew it because it was closed one. They’re spending hundreds of thousands of dollars times five in December to know what to do at the end. This is an early warning system that’s better than any MQL, better than any SQL. And if you could give your company these level of view into their pipeline with an early warning system that I can work with those partners for months before they ever show up at the customer’s boardroom. [00:35:44] Jay McBain: This is it. Talk about 47% winners. This takes you from not only surviving the AI era to being a top five platform winner. Thank you very much. [00:36:01] Vince Menzione: Until next time, we’ll see you in person. Hopefully at our next event.
A timber-frame “cathedral” filled with Mopar muscle cars and neon signs sounds like a myth until you hear it from the guy who built it. We sit down with John Hovis, creator of the Hemi Hideout near Brookshire, Texas, to talk about the passion that drove him to collect late-1960s and early-1970s Dodge and Plymouth legends, why an original Superbird still stops people in their tracks, and how the space has grown into a full-on automotive time capsule.We also get into what makes the Hideout more than a private collection: weekday tours, a volunteer crew that loves telling the stories, and a simple model that turns visits into local charity donations. John shares why the building itself matters, how the memorabilia and vintage signs became a second obsession, and what it's like to keep adding pieces when you're “running out of wall.”Then we jump from old-school horsepower to modern electrons with Jeff's Motor Minute nostalgia and Don's review of the 2026 GMC Sierra EV Denali Max Range. We cover claimed range vs real driving, towing and payload, the sheer weight of a big-battery electric pickup, and why missing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto is a real talking point for buyers. If you love car culture, collector stories, and honest new car reviews, hit subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave us a review. What would you rather tour first, the Hemi Hideout or an EV truck showroom?Be sure to subscribe for more In Wheel Time Car Talk!The Lupe' Tortilla RestaurantsLupe Tortilla in Katy, Texas Gulf Coast Auto ShieldPaint protection, tint, and more!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.---- ----- Want more In Wheel Time car talk any time? In Wheel Time is now available on Audacy! Just go to Audacy.com/InWheelTime where ever you are.----- -----Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast provider for the next episode of In Wheel Time Podcast and check out our live multiplatform broadcast every Saturday, 10a - 12nCT simulcasting on Audacy, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and InWheelTime.com.In Wheel Time Podcast can be heard on you mobile device from providers such as:Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music Podcast, Spotify, SiriusXM Podcast, iHeartRadio podcast, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Castro, Castbox, YouTube Podcast and more on your mobile device.Follow InWheelTime.com for the latest updates!Twitter: https://twitter.com/InWheelTimeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inwheeltime/https://www.youtube.com/inwheeltimehttps://www.Facebook.com/InWheelTimeFor more information about In Wheel Time Podcast, email us at info@inwheeltime.com
This was a milestone episode to wrap up the season - episode 300 of EV Musings.In this special roundtable, I'm joined by Dora Clarke (Osprey Charging), Kate Tyrrell (EVCI Global / ChargeSafe), and Teresa Swift (Stark Charge) for an honest discussion on the real-world driver experience, from signage and infrastructure to advertising, pricing, and making EVs more accessible.What You'll Discover- The State of EV Road Signage: Why current signage is lacking, what drivers actually need to see, and how better signs could boost confidence and utilisation.- Profit vs People in Public Charging: The real economics facing CPOs, the pressures on pricing, and whether operators are prioritising the driver experience.- Advertising on Chargers: Should drivers see ads while charging, and what (if anything) they should get in return - discounts, freebies, or better facilities?What really stood out is how much of the conversation came back to trust and practicality. Whether it's clearer signage so people can actually find chargers, maintaining sites properly, or making the whole experience feel welcoming (especially for women and new EV drivers), the panel agreed that getting the fundamentals right will matter far more than flashy gimmicks as the market matures.A brilliant, wide-ranging discussion to close out Season 15 and hit a huge milestone for EV Musings.The EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence.Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk(C) 2019-2026 Gary ComerfordSupport me: Patreon Link: http://www.patreon.com/evmusingsKo-fi Link: http://www.ko-fi.com/evmusingsThe Books:'So, you've gone electric?' on Amazon : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Q5JVF1X'So, you've gone renewable?' on Amazon : https://amzn.to/3LXvIckSocial Media:EVMusings: Twitter https://twitter.com/MusingsEvInstagram: @EVmusingsOctopus Energy referral code (Click this link to get started) https://share.octopus.energy/neat-star-460Upgrade to smarter EV driving with a free week's trial of Zapmap Premium, find out more here https://evmusings.com/zapmap-premiumMentioned in this episode:ZapmapThe EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence. Zapmap is free to download and use, with subscription plans for enhanced features such as using Zapmap in-car on CarPlay or Android Auto, and discounted charging across thousands of charge points. Download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store or find out more at www.zapmap.com.Zapmap EV Guide
380 ALT ABER GÜLTIG: Android Auto (UPDATE 07.06.2026! Update 2!) Zuerst nicht wundern, ich hatte und habe immer noch heftige PC-Probleme, daher ist die Episode seit April aufgenommen, aber ich konnte sie erst heute exportieren und nun endlich auch in euer Ohr kippen - und selbst DAS hat auf Anhieb nicht geklappt, nun aber, Stand 07.06.26, geht es wieder los mit dem Podcasts!!! Ich hoffe, dass ich den Rest unter Kontrolle bekomme und dann auch die in der heutig-alten-Episode angekündigten weiteren Folgen aufnehmen und auch ins Ohr schieben kann. So, genug der Entschuldigungen und Sprüchen, los geht es heute mit Android Auto. Und, kurz gesagt, ich nutze das mittlerweile im Auto - bin aber immer noch nicht schlauer... wenn mir jemand helfen kann, ich freue mich gerne au deine Hilfe! Und ab! Folge direkt herunterladen
In Armenien ist Schach weit mehr als nur ein Spiel. Es ist ein Nationalsport und sogar ein obligatorisches Schulfach. Das hängt mit der Schachbegeisterung der Sowjetunion zusammen. Armenien war früher Teil der Sowjetunion, wo Schach als Mittel galt, um die Überlegenheit des eigenen Systems zu demonstrieren. Doch auch nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion blieb Schach in Armenien populär. Denn man verspricht sich Grosses davon: Schach soll junge Leute resilienter machen und ihnen zu einer anständigen Karriere verhelfen. Mittlerweile gehört Schach zum nationalen Selbstverständnis in Armenien. Gast: Jana Kehl, Auslandredaktorin Host: Antonia Moser Redaktion: Dominik Schottner In [Janas Reportage aus Armenien](https://www.nzz.ch/international/in-armenien-muessen-alle-kinder-schach-lernen-ld.10003532) kannst du dir die Schach-Szene auch anschauen. Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay).
Spanien gilt weltweit als Vorreiter in der Prävention von Femiziden. Ein Grund dafür ist das Warnsystem Viogén. Doch das System hat auch Grenzen: Am 29. Juni 2024 suchen Polizisten in einem kleinen spanischen Dorf nach der 30-Jährigen Amal und ihren zwei Kindern. Als sie gefunden werden, sind alle drei tot. Kurz darauf nimmt die Polizei Amals Ex-Mann fest, den Vater der Kinder. Über Jahre hinweg hatte er seine Frau misshandelt. Amal hatte mehrmals Anzeige gegen ihn erstattet und sich längst von ihm getrennt. Diese Informationen waren bei der Polizei bekannt. Sie werden in ein System namens Viogén eingegeben, das voraussagen soll, wie wahrscheinlich es ist, dass ein Täter erneut gewalttätig wird – und Frauen auf diese Weise besser schützen. NZZ-Auslandredaktorin Julia Monn berichtet von dem Fall und erklärt, wie das Warnsystem Viogén funtioniert. Heutiger Gast: Julia Monn, Auslandredaktorin Host: Antonia Moser Julias Recheerche könnt ihr auch [in der NZZ nachlesen](https://www.nzz.ch/international/femizide-in-spanien-wie-sicher-schuetzt-viogen-frauen-vor-gewalt-ld.1901824). Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay).
V nejnovějším díle podcastu Pod Zlatou Lampou jsme detailně rozebrali to nejdůležitější z Android Show. Míra s Přemkem probírají čerstvý Android 17 a nový systém pro počítače GoogleBook. Nejvíc času jsme ale věnovali obrovskému skoku pro Android Auto – těšit se můžete na mapu zabírající celý podkres, levitující widgety generované umělou inteligencí Gemini a konečně i nativní spouštění videí třeba z YouTube v 60 fps. Bude to znamenat konec dominance Apple CarPlay? Poslechni si náš nadšený i mírně skeptický pohled!
Google tuvo doble evento esta semana (Android Show + Google I/O) y dejó de llamar a Android un "sistema operativo": ahora es un "sistema inteligente" controlado por Gemini. También: Android Auto rediseñado, el nuevo Google Book contra el MacBook Neo, la búsqueda reinventada con IA, agentes Spark, y el regreso de Google a las gafas inteligentes con Project Aura.
I wanted to get an industry expert back on to talk about where things really stand in the EV space right now.In this episode, I catch up with Sam Clarke - Guinness World Record holder, and Green Fleet 100 nominee, for a wide-ranging conversation on the current state of electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, and the challenges facing the industry.What You'll Discover- The State of EV Misinformation: Why Sam is less bothered by it now and how facts are winning in the long term despite the noise.- Public Charging Realities: Pricing pressures, utilisation, first-mover advantage, and why some networks perform better than others.- The Future of HGV Charging and Consolidation: What's happening with eHGVs, roaming, and why the market is inevitably heading towards fewer, stronger players.He acknowledges the real challenges around pricing, grid connections, and inconsistent government policy, but remains optimistic about the direction of travel. His point about needing more joined-up thinking from government and the value of consolidation for simplicity and reliability felt particularly timely.If you're interested in where public charging is heading, the realities of operating a network, or how the HGV transition is progressing, this episode gives you a clear-eyed insider perspective.Guest Details:Sam Clarke is an award-winning entrepreneur, EV owner for 24 years, head of eHGV at GRIDSERVE & a 4-time Guinness World Record Holder for EV driving. His EV journey started in 2002 with all electric motorbikes before founding a zero-emission logistics firm which he sold to John Menzies Plc in 2017. He now works on public charging infrastructure for GRIDSERVE, being the architect of the ‘Electric Freightway' a £100M Government funded eHGV Project. He is a regular public speaker on EV and is a founder of The EV Café webinar & news channel, an industry recognised voice in the EV community. In 2015, Sam was a Great British Entrepreneur's Award winner and by 2022 he was a GreenFleet EV Champion for services to the industry. In 2024 he was voted #1 in the Motor Transport Power Players list and #7 in the greenfleet.net top 100 most Influential list in 2026. He holds 4 Guinness World Records for the longest journeys ever driven in an electric car, SUV, van and motorbike on a single charge.The EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence.Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk(C) 2019-2026 Gary ComerfordSupport me: Patreon Link: http://www.patreon.com/evmusingsKo-fi Link: http://www.ko-fi.com/evmusingsThe Books:'So, you've gone electric?' on Amazon : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Q5JVF1X'So, you've gone renewable?' on Amazon : https://amzn.to/3LXvIckSocial Media:EVMusings: Twitter https://twitter.com/MusingsEvInstagram: @EVmusingsOctopus Energy referral code (Click this link to get started) https://share.octopus.energy/neat-star-460Upgrade to smarter EV driving with a free week's trial of Zapmap Premium, find out more here https://evmusings.com/zapmap-premiumMentioned in this episode:ZapmapThe EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence. Zapmap is free to download and use, with subscription plans for enhanced features such as using Zapmap in-car on CarPlay or Android Auto, and discounted charging across thousands of charge points. Download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store or find out more at www.zapmap.com.Zapmap EV Guide
Nach dem jüngsten Gipfeltreffen mit US-Präsident Donald Trump und Tech-Größen wie Elon Musk oder Jensen Huang zeigt sich auf den Straßen Chinas ein widersprüchliches Bild: Während die einfache Bevölkerung eine große Begeisterung für die westlichen Rockstars der Wirtschaft an den Tag legt, bleibt der erhoffte politische Durchbruch aus. Matthias Kamp berichtet direkt von der Basis über die spürbare Verunsicherung im Land. Die goldenen Zeiten des ständigen Aufstiegs scheinen vorbei zu sein. Junge, gut ausgebildete Chinesinnen und Chinesen finden oft keine passenden Jobs mehr und reagieren mit Resignation oder dem Wunsch nach Auswanderung. Gleichzeitig fließen immense staatliche Gelder in technologische Großprojekte wie autonome Flugtaxis und humanoide Roboter, während die ländliche Bevölkerung im Alter kaum sozial abgesichert ist. Gast: Matthias Kamp, China-Korrespondent Host: Simon Schaffer Mehr Text von Matthias gibt es [hier bei der NZZ](https://www.nzz.ch/impressum/matthias-kamp-ld.1497895). Weitere Texte zu [Trumps Staatsbesuch in China](https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/trump-in-china-er-waere-besser-zu-hause-geblieben-ld.10007041). Lust auf noch mehr digitale Inhalte der NZZ? [Probier`s drei Monate aus.](https://abo.nzz.ch/25077808-2/) Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay).
Alustame Google'i iga-aastase I/O arendajate konverentsiga, kus ootuspäraselt oli läbivaks teemaks tehisaru, mis võtab järjest tegusamaid vorme. Räägime sellest, miks Euroopa tarbijakaitseühendused otsustasid veebigigante kohtuga kimbutada. Leedus leidis üks nutikas härra viisi, kuidas oma Tesla isesõitmise funktsioon legaalselt aktiveerida. Meelis testis Motorola üliõhukest telefoni ning jagab muljeid.Saate teemad:- Google I/O konverentsil näidatu oli korraga äge ja hirmutav.- Android Auto saab kasulikke uuendusi.- Androidiga mõistlikud nutiprillid on peagi kohal.- Euroopa tarbijakaitseühendused kaebasid Google'i, Meta ja Tiktoki pettustele kaasaaitamise pärast kohtusse.- Leedus sõidab üks Tesla ise.- Motorola Edge 70 on väga õhuke ja kerge telefon, aga kas ka hinda väärt?Kui sul on meile küsimusi või tahad jagada oma kogemusi tehnikamaailmas, kirjuta meile: digisaade@geenius.ee.Saadet teevad Hans Lõugas, Glen Pilvre ja Meelis Väljamäe.Tunnusmuusika: Glen Pilvre, Paul Oja.
I wanted to revisit something that matters to every EV driver - tyres.In this episode, I follow up on the Hankook ION EVO tyres I fitted last season (replacing a set of budget Devantis), and I'm joined by Andrew Till (Mr EV) who fitted the all-season ION FlexClimate SUV tyres. We compare notes on handling, road noise, and real-world efficiency after several months and thousands of miles.What You'll Discover- The Difference EV-Specific Tyres Actually Make: From reduced road noise to better planted feel and confidence in corners and wet conditions.- Real-World Noise & Efficiency Results: Our (imperfect but honest) decibel measurements and efficiency comparisons between old and new tyres.- Summer vs All-Season EV Tyres: How the Hankook ION range performs in daily driving and what to expect when upgrading.What really stood out to me is how much of a difference quality EV-specific tyres can make, especially if you're coming from budget rubber. The car feels noticeably quieter and more composed, and while exact efficiency gains are hard to isolate perfectly, both of us are seeing small but meaningful improvements that add up over time. As Neil from Hankook explained last season, brand new tyres need a bit of wear before they're at their most efficient - so the best is probably still to come.If you're thinking about your next tyre change or you've been putting up with noisy rubber, this episode gives you a real-driver perspective on whether EV-specific tyres are worth it.The EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence.Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk(C) 2019-2026 Gary ComerfordSupport me: Patreon Link: http://www.patreon.com/evmusingsKo-fi Link: http://www.ko-fi.com/evmusingsThe Books:'So, you've gone electric?' on Amazon : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Q5JVF1X'So, you've gone renewable?' on Amazon : https://amzn.to/3LXvIckSocial Media:EVMusings: Twitter https://twitter.com/MusingsEvInstagram: @EVmusingsOctopus Energy referral code (Click this link to get started) https://share.octopus.energy/neat-star-460Upgrade to smarter EV driving with a free week's trial of Zapmap Premium, find out more here https://evmusings.com/zapmap-premiumMentioned in this episode:ZapmapThe EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence. Zapmap is free to download and use, with subscription plans for enhanced features such as using Zapmap in-car on CarPlay or Android Auto, and discounted charging across thousands of charge points. Download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store or find out more at www.zapmap.com.Zapmap EV Guide
Der wöchentliche Podcast [NZZ Geopolitik](https://www.nzz.ch/podcast/geopolitik) ist diesen Sonntag zu Gast hier bei NZZ Akzent. Wenn dir das Format gefällt: Eine neue Folge von NZZ Geopolitik erscheint immer mittwochs auf deiner Lieblingsplattform. Abonnier uns gerne. Und darum geht es diesmal: Der brüchige Waffenstillstand im Krieg gegen den Iran zwingt die Golfstaaten zu einer radikalen Neuausrichtung ihrer Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik. Nach den iranischen Angriffen auf den strategisch wichtigen Hafen von Fujairah in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten wird deutlich, dass die traditionelle Pendelpolitik der Golfmonarchien an ihre Grenzen stösst. Das historische Novum, dass das israelische Iron-Dome-System erstmals in einem arabischen Staat zum Einsatz kommt, signalisiert eine tiefgreifende Veränderung der regionalen Dynamiken. Gleichzeitig wächst am Golf die Frustration über den langjährigen Sicherheitsgaranten USA. Die Herrscherhäuser stehen vor der Herausforderung, ihre ambitionierten wirtschaftlichen Modelle und die gesellschaftliche Resilienz in Zeiten kriegerischer Konflikte aufrechterhalten zu müssen. Welche Rolle die Rivalitäten zwischen Abu Dhabi und Riad spielen und warum der opportunistische Pragmatismus der Region dennoch bestehen bleibt, analysiert diese Episode Heutiger Gast: [Dr. Sebastian Sons ](https://carpo-bonn.org/uber-uns/team/team/dr-sebastian-sons) Host: David Vogel Du hast schon ein NZZ-Abo und willst NZZ Pro zusätzlich bekommen. Das Angebot dafür findest du [hier](https://abo.nzz.ch/23055512-2/). Du hast noch kein NZZ-Abo und willst Premium-Abonnent werden? Dann [hier ](https://abo.nzz.ch/23055513-2/)entlang. Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay). Fragen? Feedback? Das NZZ Geopolitik-Team erreichst du unter geopolitik@nzz.ch.
Kuba steht vor dem energetischen Kollaps. Nach dem US-Embargo und dem Ausbleiben von Treibstofflieferungen aus Venezuela ist das Land fast vollständig lahmgelegt. Der Energieminister gibt offen zu: Es gibt absolut nichts mehr. Die Folge sind Stromausfälle von bis zu 22 Stunden am Tag, die das öffentliche Leben in Havanna und in den Provinzen massiv beeinträchtigen. Doch die Not macht erfinderisch. Immer mehr Kubaner nehmen die Energiewende selbst in die Hand. Vor allem mithilfe von Solarenergie, und mit Hilfe aus China. Gast: Sandra Weiss, Reporterin Host: Simon Schaffer Die ganze Reportage von Sandra Weiss gibt es[ hier bei der NZZ](https://www.nzz.ch/international/trumps-oelembargo-gegen-kuba-befeuert-die-energiewende-auf-der-insel-und-spielt-china-in-die-haende-ld.1932133). Lust auf noch mehr digitale Inhalte der NZZ? [Probier`s drei Monate aus.](https://abo.nzz.ch/25077808-2/) Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay).
Nach nur zwei Jahren im Amt steckt der britische Premierminister Keir Starmer in einer tiefen Krise. Angetreten mit dem Versprechen, das politische Chaos der konservativen Vorgänger zu beenden, gilt der Labour-Chef heute selbst als Sinnbild der Stagnation. Massive Staatsverschuldung, hohe Lebenshaltungskosten und die ungelöste Migrationsfrage belasten das Land. Starmer selbst wirkt führungsschwach und verstrickt sich in politische Kehrtwenden. Während er versucht, den Druck auszusitzen, bringen sich parteiinterne Rivalen bereits für seine Nachfolge in Stellung. Die tiefe Unzufriedenheit der Bevölkerung mit dem politischen Establishment ebnet jedoch einer ganz anderen Kraft den Weg. Nigel Farage mit seiner rechtspopulistischen Partei Reform UK könnte der lachende Dritte sein. Gast: David Signer, Grossbritannien-Korrespondent Host: Antonia Moser Redaktion: Dominik Schottner Die neusten Entwicklungen in Grossbritannien kannst du [hier ](https://www.nzz.ch/international/regierungskrise-in-grossbritannien-starmer-konkurrent-burnham-koennte-sitz-im-parlament-erben-ld.10007193)nachlesen. Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay).
The day has finally arrived! With the world of developers and Google enthusiasts descending on Mountain View, CA for the annual Google I/O conference! Jason Howell and Ron Richards braved the sun and brutal heat to bring you all the I/O experience from the keynote to hands-on demos and more!Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:01:58 - GEMINIIn case you haven't noticed, Gemini is kind of a big deal at Google and was the backbone for the announcements and updates from the Google Keynote address. From the latest and greatest Gemini 3.5 Flash to updates to the Gemini App and everything in-between.00:19:21 - SEARCHThis year's I/O Keynote brought about some pretty dramatic updates and changes to the search engine experience, mainly drive by the past year's success of AI Overviews and more advances in, you guessed it...Gemini00:33:50 - ANDROIDWhile the Keynote was light on Android, there was an entire section dedicated to Android XR and we got to check out some of the new glassesWe also got to experience the new Android Auto and yes, the new updates are impactful!While all this happened, Google announced WearOS 7 and some developer updates for Google TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Google veut transformer Android en système de bureau dopé à Gemini, Microsoft tente de rendre Windows 11 plus réactif, OpenAI sort juridiquement gagnant face à Elon Musk mais abîmé publiquement, et l'IA continue de bousculer la cybersécurité, le travail, la musique et les infrastructures. Me soutenir sur Patreon Me retrouver sur YouTube On discute ensemble sur Discord Presque Google IO Les Google Book, trois livres de bonheur ? Gemini Intelligence prend les commandes pour ta pomme. Toutes les délicieuses nouveautés de Cinnamon bun. Android Auto trace sa route. Windows veut passer le turbo… Sur votre CPU. Glaive et justice Bonne nouvelle pour le procès OpenAI : il est fini. Le partenariat Open AI / Apple finit en compote. Parts des anges : Anthropic brise la chaîne, Cerebras énormément de fric. We love Cox : l'érection d'un nouveau pilier législatif de la tech. Monet for nothing : X part en biais… Comme d'hab. En pratique Et sinon elle fait quoi Mira Murati ? Elle papote. Vous n'êtes pas prêt pour l'IA en entreprise ? Elles non plus. IA et cybersécurité, la MIE et la croûte. Un datacenter dans ta maison qui coûte plus que ta maison. Jeux vidéo Ahoy ! Ubisoft lance une chance au trésor qui va se finir à coup de pelle. Va-t-on arrêter de tuer les jeux en Californie ? Bientôt du FSR4 sur PS5 ?? Participants Une émission préparée par Guillaume Poggiaspalla Présenté par Guillaume Vendé
Seit den heftigen Drohungen von Donald Trump, Grönland zu annektieren oder gar zu kaufen, herrscht auf der arktischen Insel ein spürbares Misstrauen gegenüber dem US-Präsidenten. Doch statt einer offenen Konfrontation setzen die USA nun auf diplomatische Gespräche mit Dänemark und Grönland, um ihre militärische Präsenz im strategisch wichtigen Nordatlantik zu erweitern. Die Skandinavien-Korrespondentin Linda Koponen erklärt, warum Dänemark und Grönland trotz dem Vertrauensbruch kaum Nein sagen können und was die Expansion der USA bedeuten könnte. Host: Nadine Landert Redaktion: Sarah Ziegler Lindas Artikel findest du hier (https://www.nzz.ch/international/usa-planen-drei-militaerstuetzpunkte-in-groenland-was-dahinter-steckt-ld.10006747). Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du hier (https://go.nzz.ch/carplay)
Esta semana en el podcast de Somos Eléctricos repasamos algunas de las noticias más interesantes del mundo de la movilidad eléctrica. Volkswagen prepara su primer GTI eléctrico con el ID. Polo GTI, Deepal ya trabaja en una versión renovada del S05 con LiDAR, y Android Auto se actualiza con Maps en 3D, YouTube y Gemini. También hablamos de los planes de XPeng para fabricar coches eléctricos en Europa junto a Volkswagen, del futuro Toyota Corolla 2027 con versiones híbrida, enchufable y eléctrica, y de las últimas novedades de Tesla: una cola virtual para Supercargadores y el Model Y superando las nuevas pruebas ADAS de la NHTSA. Un episodio cargado de eléctricos pequeños, software, seguridad, carga rápida y mucha estrategia industrial. Benefíciate del CAE al comprar tu coche eléctrico. Mas info en: https://somoselectricos.com/certificados-ahorro-energetico-cae-coche-electrico/ Usa nuestra calculadora para conocer lo que recibirás de ayuda al comprar un coche eléctrico: https://somoselectricos.com/calcula-importe-ayuda-plan-auto/ ¿Quieres anunciarte en este podcast? Hazlo con advoices.com/podcast/ivoox/627406
Photo by Valérie Ungerer on Unsplash Published 18 May 2026 e554 with Michael and Michael – stories and discussion on LLM phone number lookups, proctors returning to Princeton, lavish LEGO, LOTR and a whole lot more! While Andy is away, Michael and Michael get things started with a discussion on the changing nature of sensitive and private information. What was once published in a phonebook is now a central identify hub. While Jenny most certainly had to change her phone number from 867-5309 and have the new one unlisted, she likely posts what would have been very personal photos on Insta, Mastodon or any number of social media services. Michael R points out that while a phone book was available for a municipality, it was not available at a country level, preserving a degree of anonymity. Continuing on the theme of social implications of technology, Michael and Michael consider the Atlantic's article about the demise of Princeton's honor code process. Check out the link below for some fantastic quotes from the Daily Princetonian – sadly the newspaper online archives only go back to 2001. Next up is an article from Thinking Machines' full duplex capabilities for natural voice interaction with agents. LEGO is in focus for this episode (surprise!) with two intriguing sets. First, a super cool LEGO Ideas Tetris arcade game cabinet with a hidden room. This reminded Michael M of the set he built that also has a cool hidden room inside. Then, Michael R shares a bit on the new Minas Tirith set – which has many elements from the movies, and includes the opportunity for a GWP (gift with purchase) of the battering ram Grond if you're one of the first to plunk down your gold pieces for this build. The fact that this is up on the Internets on 18 May is due to the hard work from Andy. He migrated our hosting over the weekend, and this is the first post on the new service. Hurrah, Andy! Do you still have a copy of your city's phonebook? Have your bots (or agents!)
I started off the podcast by noting that I'm testing yet another budget-friendly microphone, the Boya CastMic G30, which features a gaming-style "glow" that led us into a deep dive on the recently announced Googlebook and its Battlestar Galactica Cylon-like Glowbar. Announced at a pre-Google I/O Android Show, the Googlebook is an AI-first, Android-based premium device positioned above the Chromebook. While its Cylon-esque "glow bar" is a fun aesthetic touch, I'm skeptical about its potential price point; if it creeps above $599, it might make more sense to buy a MacBook Neo, especially given Android's historical struggle with landscape-oriented tablet apps. We also touched on the future of Android Auto, which is introducing "immersive navigation" with Lane Advisory guidance to help drivers with select supported cars with front cameras navigate multi-lane roads in real-time. The second half of our conversation turned toward the cognitive impact of AI. We debated a recent study claiming that using AI for even ten minutes can impair brain performance, particularly in solving math problems. Jon Westfall, drawing on his background as a cognitive scientist, was skeptical of the study's protocol, while I noted the striking similarity to the "brain mush" warnings I heard about calculators fifty years ago. We wrapped up by discussing how to "smooth over" the friction in our personal hobbies. For Jon, this means a "buy once, cry once" philosophy with high-quality tools like professional knitting needles. For me, retirement has brought a surprising fascination with the mechanics of pencil sharpeners, where I've discovered that investing in a high-quality long-point sharpener is often the key to enjoying the simple act of doodling on paper. Whether it's using AI to remove "ums" and "ahs" from speech via Gboard's new Rambler feature or whittling a pencil to perfection, we agreed that the right tool fundamentally changes the experience
Wer schon mal gedatet hat, kennt das Gefühl von Unsicherheit und Anspannung. Manche nutzen darum künstliche Intelligenz als persönlichen Dating-Berater. Sie ordnet ein, erkennt Muster und mögliche Red Flags und hilft beim Kommunizieren mit dem Date. Oder doch nicht? Warum vertrauen Menschen einer Maschine ihre intimsten Chatverläufe und Traumata an? Wir begleiten Jana, die nach einer schmerzhaften Trennung bei ChatGPT nach Antworten sucht. Bastian, der nach elf Jahren Beziehung wieder Single ist, lernt durch die KI, Beziehungsdynamiken aus einer neuen Perspektive zu betrachten. Experten warnen jedoch vor blindem Vertrauen: Eine Studie der Uni Stanford belegt, dass Sprachmodelle dazu neigen, uns zu schmeicheln, statt die Realität objektiv abzubilden. Gast: Cleo Libro, NZZ-Reporterin Host: Alice Grosjean In ihrem [Text in der NZZ](https://www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonntag-magazin/die-ki-mein-dating-coach-ld.1933600) hat Cleo auch noch die Geschichte von Sabine aufgeschrieben. Sie nutzt KI erstmal, um den Überblick zu behalten; denn nach 30 Jahren Ehe kehr sie zurück ins Dating-Leben und braucht Orientierung. Lust auf noch mehr digitale Inhalte der NZZ? [Probier`s drei Monate aus.](https://abo.nzz.ch/25077808-2/) Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay).
Join me for episode 479 of the Mobile Tech Podcast with guest Florence Ion of PCMag -- brought to you by Mint Mobile. In this episode, we review the Moto Razr Fold, dive into Googlebooks and Google's Fitbit Air, and share our expectations for Google I/O 2026. We also discuss new phones from Moto, OnePlus, and Sony, then cover news, leaks, and rumors from Google, Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm.Episode Links- Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tnkgrl- Donate / buy me a coffee (PayPal): https://tnkgrl.com/tnkgrl/- Support the podcast with Mint Mobile: https://mintmobile.com/mobiletech- Florence Ion: https://www.threads.com/@ohthatflo- Flo's Moto Razr Fold review: https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/motorola-razr-fold- My Moto Razr Fold review: https://hothardware.com/reviews/moto-razr-fold-review-8-gen-5-cameras-silicon-carbon-pen- Moto Edge 70 Pro: https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_edge_70_pro_global_features_price_sale_date-news-72618.php- Google introduces GoogleBooks running Aluminium OS: https://www.gsmarena.com/google_introduces_googlebooks_running_android-news-72793.php- Google Fitbit Air: https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/925458/google-health-fitbit-air-ai-coaching-wearables-fitness-trackers- Google Pixel 11 series specs leak: https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_11_pixel_11_pro_pixel_11_pro_xl_pixel_11_pro_fold_specs_leak-news-72668.php- Android Auto getting massive update including Dolby Atmos: https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/hybrid-electric-vehicles/android-auto-gets-a-massive-ai-powered-upgrade-with-youtube-dolby-atmos-and-immersive-3d-maps- What to expect at Google I/O: https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-io-2026-what-to-expect-and-how-to-watch- Apple iPhone 20th Anniversary rumors: https://www.gsmarena.com/tipster_20th_anniversary_iphone_will_have_solidstate_buttons-news-72691.php- Apple needs to make an iPhone flip: https://ca.pcmag.com/mobile-phones/15518/hey-apple-i-dont-want-a-galaxy-z-fold-clone-i-want-a-colorful-iphone-flip-instead- Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra camera rumors: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s27_ultra_to_have_one_less_camera_then_its_predecessor-news-72631.php- OnePlus Ace 6 Ultra: https://www.gsmarena.com/oneplus_ace_6_ultra_joins_the_game_with_a_dimensity_9500_chip_8600mah_battery-news-72587.php- Sony Xperia 1 VIII: https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_1_viii_unveiled_with_larger_48mp_telephoto_sensor_snapdragon_8_elite_gen_5-news-72786.php- Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 and 4 Gen 5: https://www.pcmag.com/news/qualcomms-next-midrange-snapdragon-chip-brings-flagship-like-super-zoomAffiliate Links (If you use these links to buy something, we might earn a commission)- Moto Razr Ultra 2025: https://amzn.to/42Gq4pH- Moto Edge 70: https://amzn.to/42FFFG8- Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14: https://amzn.to/4eNHVCr- Apple MacBook Neo: https://amzn.to/3ORAMGM- Google Fitbit Air: https://amzn.to/43d7Pbx
I wanted to dig into one of the most confusing and frustrating topics for EV drivers - why electricity bills keep rising even as more renewables come online.In this episode, I break down how electricity pricing actually works in the UK. From wholesale markets and marginal pricing to Contracts for Difference, curtailment payments, grid constraints, and all the hidden levies that end up on your bill, this is a clear-eyed look at why gas still dominates pricing and what it means for EV owners.What You'll Discover- How Marginal Pricing Works: Why the price of the most expensive source (often gas) sets the wholesale price for everyone, even when most power comes from cheap wind and solar.- Contracts for Difference (CfD) Explained: How strike prices, the Low Carbon Clearing Company (LCCC), and payments flow between renewables and the grid, and why this system doesn't always reduce consumer bills.- The Hidden Costs Driving Up Your Electricity Bill: Curtailment payments, transmission constraints, levies, VAT differences, and why domestic gas often looks cheaper than electricity despite the headlines.What is clear is just how complex and inefficient the current system has become. We're generating more cheap, clean power than ever, yet structural issues like marginal pricing, curtailment, and regional transmission problems mean we're still paying gas prices for much of our electricity and footing the bill for millions in payments to switch off renewables. It's a fascinating but frustrating picture.If you've ever wondered why public charging feels expensive or why your home electricity bill doesn't reflect all those windy days, this episode cuts through the noise and gives you a much clearer understanding of what's really going on.The EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence.Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk(C) 2019-2026 Gary ComerfordSupport me: Patreon Link: http://www.patreon.com/evmusingsKo-fi Link: http://www.ko-fi.com/evmusingsThe Books:'So, you've gone electric?' on Amazon : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Q5JVF1X'So, you've gone renewable?' on Amazon : https://amzn.to/3LXvIckSocial Media:EVMusings: Twitter https://twitter.com/MusingsEvInstagram: @EVmusingsOctopus Energy referral code (Click this link to get started) https://share.octopus.energy/neat-star-460Upgrade to smarter EV driving with a free week's trial of Zapmap Premium, find out more here https://evmusings.com/zapmap-premiumMentioned in this episode:ZapmapThe EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence. Zapmap is free to download and use, with subscription plans for enhanced features such as using Zapmap in-car on CarPlay or Android Auto, and discounted charging across thousands of charge points. Download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store or find out more at www.zapmap.com.Zapmap EV Guide
Nach 16 Jahren an der Macht ist die Ära von Viktor Orban und seiner Fidesz-Partei in Ungarn zu Ende gegangen. In dieser Samstagsfolge von NZZ Akzent blicken wir hinter die Kulissen eines historischen Machtwechsels. Wie fühlt sich dieser Umbruch für die Menschen im Land an? Unsere Korrespondentin Meret Baumann war nach der politischen Wende in Ungarn unterwegs. Sie erlebte eine tiefen Erleichterung in Teilen der Bevölkerung, aber hörte auch von den Sorgen in den ländlichen Gebieten, die einst als sichere Hochburgen Orbans galten. Und Meret erzählt vom Tag der feierliche Vereidigung des neuen Regierungschefs Peter Magyar, bei der sie dabei war. Gast: Meret Baumann, Korrespondentin für Österreich und Ostmitteleuropa Host: Simon Schaffer Mehr Texte von Meret Baumann gibt es [hier bei der NZZ](https://www.nzz.ch/impressum/meret-baumann-ld.154638). Lust auf noch mehr digitale Inhalte der NZZ? [Probier`s drei Monate aus.](https://abo.nzz.ch/25077808-2/) Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay). Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay). Lust auf noch mehr digitale Inhalte der NZZ? [Probier`s drei Monate aus.](https://abo.nzz.ch/25077808-2/)
On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss Google's latest wave of announcements for Android and Gemini, the newly announced Fitbit Air, and Apple Watch Series 12 rumors.The centerpiece of Google's announcements this week was Gemini Intelligence, Google's new umbrella platform for AI across phones, watches, cars, and laptops. Its headline capability is cross-app automation: users can photograph an event flyer and ask Gemini to find tickets on Expedia, or pull up a grocery list and have it build a cart in a shopping app. A companion feature called Create My Widget lets users describe a home screen widget in natural language and have Gemini generate it, drawing from Gmail and Calendar to build a personalized dashboard.Google also unveiled the Googlebook, a new laptop category designed from the ground up around Gemini with partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo arriving this fall. Gemini in Chrome for Android gained an agentic browsing layer rolling out end of June, and Android Auto received AI-generated contextual replies and DoorDash voice ordering. A Meta partnership brings Ultra HDR, native stabilization, and night mode to Instagram on Android flagship devices.In January, Apple and Google announced a partnership under which Gemini would power the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, including a more personalized Siri expected this year. Apple's equivalent cross-app Siri actions were announced at WWDC 2024 but have not yet shipped; Gemini Intelligence is rolling out this summer using the same underlying technology.Google also unveiled the Fitbit Air this week, a screenless fitness tracker priced at $99 that ships on May 26. The device weighs just 12 grams with the band and tracks heart rate, AFib, HRV, SpO2, and sleep stages in a pill-shaped pebble with no display, no buttons, and no notifications. Battery life lasts for seven days, with a five-minute fast charge delivering a full day of use. A Stephen Curry Special Edition is priced at $129, with core tracking free and Google Health Premium adding an AI Coach for $9.99 per month after a three-month trial.The launch accompanies a broader rebrand. The Fitbit app becomes Google Health on May 19, with Google Fit folded in, Apple Health data supported on iOS, and APIs for Garmin, Whoop, and Oura. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported earlier this year that Apple has scaled back a comparable Health+ coaching service, with the feature now unlikely to launch. The Apple Watch SE starts at $249 and requires daily charging, and the Fitbit Air's $99 price with no mandatory subscription addresses a segment Apple does not cover.We also discuss the Apple Watch Series 12, which is shaping up to be an incremental upgrade. Bloomberg's Mark Gurmansaid in March that he does not expect any major design changes, and a significant redesign is now not expected until 2028.The leaker known as Instant Digital said this week that Touch ID, which appeared in leaked Apple code last year, has been deprioritized in favor of battery life improvements. DigiTimes previously reported an eight-sensor array on the back of at least one 2026 model, though blood pressure monitoring is said to be further out. A new chip is expected, with leaked code indicating a meaningful upgrade from the S10 used across the last three series, and watchOS 27 will be previewed at WWDC on June 8. Start your business with Shopify and get everything you need to sell online and in person. Start today at https://www.shopify.com/mac
Die Schweiz ist als Reiseziel beliebter denn je, doch der Erfolg hat seine Schattenseiten. In dieser Episode beleuchten wir das wachsende Phänomen des Overtourism und warum in idyllischen Orten wie Grindelwald oder Luzern die Stimmung allmählich kritischer wird. Wenn das Verhältnis zwischen Einwohnern und Übernachtungsgästen extrem auseinanderklafft, entstehen Konflikte, die weit über kleine Ärgernisse hinausgehen. Wir diskutieren über «Benimm-Videos» von Schweiz Tourismus, die Besuchern sanft die hiesigen Gepflogenheiten beibringen sollen, und schauen uns an, warum asiatische Fans einer Netflix-Serie plötzlich ein kleines Dorf am Brienzersee stürmen. Es geht um Drohnenverbote, den Stopp von Hotelbauten und die Frage, ob eine Gebühr von fünf Franken für ein Selfie auf einem Schiffssteg die Lösung für die Zukunft sein kann. Erfahre, wie Gemeinden versuchen, mit Lenkungsmassnahmen die Balance zwischen wirtschaftlicher Wertschöpfung und Lebensqualität zu halten. Heutiger Gast: Erich Aschwanden, NZZ-Chefreporter Schweiz Host: David Vogel Lust auf noch mehr digitale Inhalte der NZZ? [Probier`s drei Monate aus.](https://abo.nzz.ch/25077808-2/) Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay).
It's EV News Briefly for Thursday 14 May 2026, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.Patreon supporters fund this show, get the episodes ad free, as soon as they're ready and are part of the EV News Daily Community. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/EVNewsDailyGLOBAL EV SALES HIT 1.6 MILLION IN APRILGlobal EV sales reached 1.6 million units in April 2026 and 5.6 million year to date, with April up 6% year over year but down 9% from an unusually strong March. Europe led growth with 400,000 sales, up 27% year over year, driven by rising petrol prices and strong gains in Germany, France and Italy, while Chinese-built EVs grew their European market share from 19% in 2025 to 22% in 2026.ELECTRIC GOLF SLIPS TO DECADE'S ENDVolkswagen has pushed the electric Golf back to the end of the decade, later than the previously expected 2028 launch, due to delays with the SSP platform that will underpin it. SSP-based vehicles will now begin with Audi and Porsche from 2028, with Volkswagen following later, as the brand needs greater scale to achieve margin parity on the platform.HOUSE BILL SEEKS PERMANENT BAN ON CHINESE CARSA bipartisan group of Michigan lawmakers has introduced the Connected Vehicle Security Act, which would permanently ban Chinese-developed connected vehicles from US roads. The bill would codify and expand a Biden-era executive order, barring passenger vehicles from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran if they contain software or connectivity systems developed in those countries.JAGUAR NAMES FIRST EV TYPE 01Jaguar has confirmed its first all-electric production car will be called the Type 01, with the "0" representing zero tailpipe emissions and the "1" marking it as the first model of a new era. The full production reveal is planned for September 2026, with customer deliveries expected to begin in early 2027.FORD STARTS STATIONARY BATTERY BUSINESSFord has launched Ford Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary, to compete in the stationary battery storage market, with its first product being the DC Block — a modular LFP battery container offering 5.45 MWh of storage and a 20-year service life. Built at a repurposed factory in Glendale, Kentucky, the DC Block will be sold in two- and four-hour discharge versions, with first customer deliveries due in early 2027 and planned annual output of 20 GWh.APTERA BUILDS FIVE VALIDATION VEHICLESAptera Motors has completed five validation vehicles on a newly established 14-station low-volume assembly line at its Carlsbad, California facility, marking a significant step towards production readiness. The vehicles will now enter a comprehensive testing programme covering road performance, durability, safety, software integration and solar energy generation efficiency.FILOSA: CHINESE OEMS FACE US DELAYStellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said Chinese OEMs will not enter the US market for at least a few years, citing the current tariff and regulatory climate. He left the door open to future partnerships, suggesting Chinese technology could still find common ground with US operations, even if direct car sales remain off the table in the near term.ANDROID AUTO STRETCHES TO FIT ANY SCREENGoogle is giving Android Auto its first major display overhaul in 11 years, with a new version that adapts to fill any car screen shape and eliminates the black borders previously seen on round, trapezoidal and other non-standard displays. The update also introduces pinnable widgets that stay over the active map, alongside a redesigned Google Maps with 3D Immersive Navigation showing buildings, lane markings, traffic lights and stop signs.CATL ADDS 5 GWH MODULE LINE IN DEBRECENCATL has opened a new 5 GWh battery module assembly line at its gigafactory in Debrecen, Hungary, fed by cells from other CATL plants while the on-site cell factory awaits final regulatory permits. The added capacity could cover approximately 50,000 EVs with 100 kWh packs or 125,000 EVs with 40 kWh packs per year.JEEP AVENGER ELECTRIC JOINS UK GRANT SCHEMEThe fully electric Jeep Avenger now qualifies for the UK government's Electric Car Grant, reducing prices by £1,500 across the range and bringing the entry-level Longitude to £28,499. The car offers a WLTP range of 248 miles, 100 kW DC fast charging capable of 20–80% in under 30 minutes, and an 11 kW onboard AC charger.TESLA ADDS REMOTE METER FOR HOME CHARGINGTesla has launched a Remote Meter accessory in Canada and the US, priced at CA$285 and US$210 respectively, for homes whose electrical panels lack capacity for a full-power Wall Connector installation. The device enables Dynamic Power Management by continuously monitoring panel capacity and automatically adjusting charging output in real time to prevent overloading.PREMIER TAKES JCB ELECTRIC FLEET PAST 100Leicestershire-based Premier Plant & Tool Hire has grown its JCB electric machine fleet to more than 100 units, positioning itself as a leader in zero-emission construction equipment rental in the UK. The expansion is driven by rising demand from urban job sites where tightening regulations make diesel-powered equipment increasingly difficult or impossible to use.
Bom dia Tech! Tudo bem? Meu nome é Arthur Givigir e hoje é quinta-feira, dia 14 de maio de 2026 e trago para vc as principais notícias de tecnologia, vamos lá?Quer patrocinar ou fazer uma parceria com o Bom dia Tech? Mande um e-mail para contato@bomdia.teche vamos conversar!Notícias00:00: ☀️ Bom dia Tech!00:23:
Įvyko „Google“ renginys „The Android Show: I/O Edition“: jame pristatyta „Gemini Intelligence“, „Android 17“ naujienos, „Googlebook“ nešiojamieji kompiuteriai, atnaujintas „Android Auto“ ir kitos „Android“ ekosistemos kryptys. Ką konkrečiai siūlo šie atnaujinimai? „Apple“ sutiko sumokėti 250 mln. dolerių byloje dėl pažadėtų, bet laiku nepasirodžiusių „Apple Intelligence“ ir „Siri“ funkcijų. Sklando gandai, kad „Apple“ kuria „AirPods“ su kameromis. „Google“ perspėja: daugėja atvejų, kai dirbtinis intelektas pasitelkiamas kibernetinėms atakoms rengti. Samas Altmanas ir Elonas Muskas teisme aiškinasi santykius, ir OpenAI ateitį. OpenAI ir „Anthropic“ nori padėti įmonėms AI sprendimus taikyti tiesiogiai. „Anthropic“ pasitelks „SpaceX“ duomenų centro pajėgumus, kad padidintų „Claude“ veikimo mastą ir naudojimo limitus.
Switch 2 price realities, Spotify's AI future, and Android Auto's big update. Join us as we discuss how this week's news impacts your entertainment budget. The post Entertainment 2.0 #710 – Switch 2 Realities & Spotify at 20 appeared first on The Digital Media Zone.
Google presentó The Android Show | I/O Edition 2026 y dejó una cosa clarísima: Android ya no quiere ser solamente un sistema operativo. Quiere convertirse en un ecosistema inteligente completo, impulsado por Gemini y conectado a teléfonos, autos, laptops, apps, formularios, teclado, widgets y mucho más. En este episodio analizamos todo lo que presentó Google antes del I/O 2026: Android 17, la llegada de Gemini Intelligence, las nuevas funciones inteligentes de Gboard con Rambler, el autocompletado avanzado con IA, los widgets generativos personalizados, las mejoras de cámara en Instagram gracias al acuerdo con Meta, el nuevo Quick Share compatible con otros sistemas, la evolución de Android Auto y la aparición sorpresa de Google Book, una nueva categoría que busca fusionar Android con ChromeOS. Pero también hay una pregunta inevitable: si Gemini empieza a entender formularios, fotos, documentos, contexto, aplicaciones y datos personales… ¿estamos frente al futuro más útil de Android o ante el ecosistema más invasivo que vimos hasta ahora? Y por supuesto, la comparación con Apple es inevitable. Porque muchas de las ventajas históricas del iPhone empiezan a desaparecer, mientras Google parece avanzar con una integración de inteligencia artificial mucho más profunda, más práctica y más real que la que Apple prometió con Siri y Apple Intelligence. En este video te cuento qué presentó Google, qué significa realmente Android 17, por qué Gemini puede cambiar la forma en la que usamos el celular y por qué este evento puede marcar un antes y un después en la guerra entre Android, iOS, Google, Apple y Microsoft. ¿Google acaba de ganarle la carrera de la inteligencia artificial a Apple? #idearVlog #Android17 #GoogleIO #Gemini #GoogleGemini #Android #Apple #Siri #AppleIntelligence #GoogleBook #AndroidAuto #InteligenciaArtificial #Tecnologia
In Klaileh, im Süden Libanons tragen Hunderte Menschen 16 Särge durch das Dorf. Es sind die Särge getöteter Hizbullah-Kämpfer. Doch die Stimmung ist anders als früher: weniger Euphorie, weniger Siegesgewissheit, mehr Erschöpfung. Die Hizbullah im Libanon ist so stark unter Druck wie seit Jahren nicht mehr. Und doch noch lange nicht am Ende. Libanon-Korrespondent Rewert Hoffer erläutert, wie sich der Hizbullah an der Macht halten kann. Host: Nadine Landert Redaktion: Antonia Moser Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du hier: https://go.nzz.ch/carplay Lust auf noch mehr digitale Inhalte der NZZ? Probier`s drei Monate aus. https://abo.nzz.ch/25077808-2/
Google I/O season officially kicks off as The Android Show: I/O Edition unveils what Google has been up to when it comes to Android, with a shift from "Operating System" to "Intelligence System." We're excited to welcome Sameer Samat, President, Android Ecosystem at Google back to the show to break down what it all means and discuss the details of today's announcements along with a broad range of topics from Gemini and AI to the new Googlebooks to the controversial sideloading apps topic and what it means to steward an operating system used by billions of people globally.Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:00:40 - NEWSGoogle unveiled The Android Show: I/O Edition and rolled out a ton of new features aimed at evolving Android into an "Intelligence System" along with introducing the new line of laptops called Googlebooks, updates to Android Auto and much more!00:09:27 - INTERVIEWAn in-depth discussion with Sameer Samat, President, Android Ecosystem at Google about the news coming out of The Android Show: I/O Edition00:57:15 - HARDWAREGoogle also launched the new line of fitness trackers, the Fitbit AirAnd in doing so, killed the Fitbit Premium app and rebranded it to Google Health and a lot of people are unhappy about that01:05:21 - APPS 'n SOFTWARE 'n STUFFAhead of Google I/O, Android 17 QPR 1 Beta 2 rolled out with bug fixes and a little bit of new stuffPhotography fans rejoiced as Google finally released Snapseed 4.0! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeden Tag werden in der Schweiz im Schnitt 140 Fahrräder und teure E-Bikes gestohlen. Doch was passiert dann mit ihnen? Die NZZaS-Reporter Sascha Batthyany, Rafaela Roth und ein Team von "SRF Investigativ" haben den Selbstversuch gewagt. Sie haben mehrere hochwertige E-Bikes mit versteckten GPS-Trackern in Schweizer Städten als Köder ausgesetzt. Wie viele von ihnen gestohlen wurden und welchen Weg sie dann genommen haben, erzählt Batthyany im Podcast. Dabei wird klar: Das System des Fahrradklaus funktioniert auch, weil Polizei und Versicherungen wenig Handhabe haben. Gast: Sacha Batthyany, NZZaS-Reporter Host: Sarah Ziegler Redaktion: Antonia Moser Du willst die ganze Geschichte lesen? Die grosse Reportage findest du in der [NZZ am Sonntag](https://www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonntag-magazin/e-bike-diebstahl-von-zuerich-bis-kosovo-eine-spurensuche-mit-gps-ld.1930167). Lust auf noch mehr digitale Inhalte der NZZ? [Probier`s drei Monate aus.](https://abo.nzz.ch/25077808-2/) Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay).
On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show to hot@twit.tv! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: outsystems.com/twit
On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show to hot@twit.tv! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: outsystems.com/twit
On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show to hot@twit.tv! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: outsystems.com/twit
On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show to hot@twit.tv! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: outsystems.com/twit
On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show to hot@twit.tv! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: outsystems.com/twit
On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show to hot@twit.tv! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: outsystems.com/twit
On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show to hot@twit.tv! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: outsystems.com/twit
I wanted to revisit something that comes up again and again with EV drivers and people thinking about going electric. Battery degradation.In this episode, I break down what's really going on, using a simple comparison we all understand: our phones. From how we charge to when we charge, I explore what actually impacts battery health and what really matters when it comes to keeping your EV running well long term.What You'll Discover- Why EV Batteries Aren't Like Your Phone: Despite common fears, EV batteries degrade far slower and often outlast the car itself.- The 80 Percent Rule Explained: For NMC batteries, limiting daily charging to around 80 percent can help preserve long-term battery health.- How Charging Habits Really Matter: Heat, rapid charging, and frequent full cycles all play a role, but most drivers won't see major issues in everyday use.What really stands out to me is how much of the concern around EV batteries is driven by misunderstanding. We've all experienced phone batteries degrading quickly, so it's easy to assume the same thing will happen with a car. But the reality is very different. EVs have far more advanced battery management systems, and the data shows degradation is much lower than people expect.There's also a useful mindset shift here. It's not about obsessing over perfect charging behaviour. It's about understanding the basics and then getting on with your life. Whether that's charging overnight, using rapid chargers when needed, or simply knowing your battery type and adjusting slightly.If you've been worried about battery life or know someone who is still on the fence about EVs because of it, this episode is worth sharing. It cuts through the noise and gives you a clear, practical way to think about it.The EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence.Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk(C) 2019-2026 Gary ComerfordSupport me: Patreon Link: http://www.patreon.com/evmusingsKo-fi Link: http://www.ko-fi.com/evmusingsThe Books:'So, you've gone electric?' on Amazon : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Q5JVF1X'So, you've gone renewable?' on Amazon : https://amzn.to/3LXvIckSocial Media:EVMusings: Twitter https://twitter.com/MusingsEvInstagram: @EVmusingsOctopus Energy referral code (Click this link to get started) https://share.octopus.energy/neat-star-460Upgrade to smarter EV driving with a free week's trial of Zapmap Premium, find out more here https://evmusings.com/zapmap-premiumMentioned in this episode:ZapmapThe EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence. Zapmap is free to download and use, with subscription plans for enhanced features such as using Zapmap in-car on CarPlay or Android Auto, and discounted charging across thousands of charge points. Download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store or find out more at www.zapmap.com.Zapmap EV Guide
On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show to hot@twit.tv! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: outsystems.com/twit
On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles. Send in your questions for Mikah to answer during the show to hot@twit.tv! Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: outsystems.com/twit
Ohrwürmer der Beach Boys gepaart mit Tarnkappenbombern: Im Konflikt zwischen den USA und dem Iran hat sich ein neues, bizarres Schlachtfeld auf den sozialen Medien etabliert. Mit KI-generierten Videos und popkulturellen Referenzen buhlen beide Seiten um die Aufmerksamkeit eines Millionenpublikums. Während das Weisse Haus auf heroische Hollywood-Ästhetik setzt, kontert der Iran mit satirischen Lego-Animationen und eingängigen Rap-Songs, die gezielt westliche Kritik an Donald Trump aufgreifen. Hinter der bunten Fassade steckt eine kalkulierte Strategie zur Beeinflussung der öffentlichen Meinung. Junge Social-Media-Teams nutzen den Algorithmus von TikTok, X und Instagram, um Reichweiten zu generieren, die herkömmliche Nachrichtenformate bei weitem übertreffen. Auch wenn diese digitale Propaganda den physischen Krieg nicht entscheidet, führt der ständige Konsum zu einer gefährlichen Abstumpfung gegenüber kriegerischer Rhetorik und Desinformation. Gast: Julia Monn, Auslandredaktorin Host: Alice Grosjean Redaktion: Sarah Ziegler Anschauen kannst du die Videos zum Beispiel in [Julias Artikel](https://www.nzz.ch/international/lego-maennchen-gegen-top-gun-iran-und-die-usa-eroeffnen-auf-social-media-ein-neues-schlachtfeld-ld.10003915). Übrigens: Alle NZZ-Podcast und Artikel kannst du jetzt auch unterwegs im Auto hören – mit Apple CarPlay oder Android Auto. Wie's funktioniert, erfährst du [hier](https://go.nzz.ch/carplay).
I wanted to revisit this topic because there's still so much noise around the cost of charging an EV, especially if you rely on public networks.In this episode, I take a fresh look at where we are with public charging costs in the UK, what's actually driving those prices, and whether it's really as expensive as people think. We also dig into something I've been exploring recently, the idea of the “pricing hurdle” and why cheaper charging options aren't always as simple as they seem.What You'll Discover- Why Public Charging Feels Expensive: It's not just electricity, it's infrastructure, grid costs, maintenance, and everything behind the scenes that drives prices up.- The Pricing Hurdle Explained: Cheaper charging exists, but it often requires effort like apps, subscriptions, or charging at specific times.- How to Actually Reduce Your Costs: From off-peak charging to subscriptions and destination charging, there are real ways to bring costs down if you're willing to adapt.What really stands out to me is how misleading the headline can be. Yes, public charging can be expensive, but that's only part of the story. There are cheaper options out there, but they come with trade-offs. Time, effort, planning, or flexibility. And that's where the real decision sits. Not just how much you pay, but what you're willing to do to pay less.There's also a bigger shift happening. More operators are introducing off-peak pricing and subscription models, which is starting to change the landscape. It's not perfect yet, but it does feel like things are moving in the right direction.If you're relying on public charging or trying to make the numbers work for an EV, this episode will help you see the full picture and make more informed choices.The EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence.Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk(C) 2019-2026 Gary ComerfordSupport me: Patreon Link: http://www.patreon.com/evmusingsKo-fi Link: http://www.ko-fi.com/evmusingsThe Books:'So, you've gone electric?' on Amazon : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Q5JVF1X'So, you've gone renewable?' on Amazon : https://amzn.to/3LXvIckSocial Media:EVMusings: Twitter https://twitter.com/MusingsEvInstagram: @EVmusingsOctopus Energy referral code (Click this link to get started) https://share.octopus.energy/neat-star-460Upgrade to smarter EV driving with a free week's trial of Zapmap Premium, find out more here https://evmusings.com/zapmap-premiumMentioned in this episode:ZapMapDownload Zapmap and you'll get the UK's most comprehensive charging map in your pocket, with a range of filters so you can personalise the map to suit your specific EV model. So it's easy to find the best charge for you, whether you're charging on-street, en-route, or at your destination. You can even see live charger availability and price information in the app, helping you choose your charger at-a-glance, and turn up with total confidence that it will work, it will be available, and it will be in your budget. Plus you can pay through the app, or with a tap of the Zapmap charging card, at thousands of charge points nationwide. No need to download a different app for each charging network. You can download Zapmap for free, or check out Zapmap Premium for charging discounts, in-car compatibility, and additional filtersZapmapThe EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence. Zapmap is free to download and use, with subscription plans for enhanced features such as using Zapmap in-car on CarPlay or Android Auto, and discounted charging across thousands of charge points. Download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store or find out more at www.zapmap.com.Zapmap EV Guide