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    #93: Cab Drivers Were Asking About It

    February 28th, 2019 · 70 minutes

    Mobile World Congress brings folding phones, battery phones, camera phones, 5G machinations, and a new business-oriented HoloLens. Plus there's a robot on the streets of Memphis, and maybe Netflix is bringing the world closer together?

    Guest Starring: Andy Ihnatko and Philip Michaels

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    Links and Show Notes

    Huawei Launches the Mate X: Folding in a New Direction
    Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone is a thinner 5G rival to the Galaxy Fold - The Verge
    Huawei Mate X hands-on: our foldable future - The Verge
    TCL's foldable phone concept bends in half like a stack of cash
    LG V50 ThinQ: entering the 5G game at MWC 2019 - The Verge
    The Nokia 9 PureView has five cameras and a lot to prove - The Verge
    This 18,000mAh Energizer battery has a phone in it - The Verge
    Oppo’s 10x optical zoom system really works - The Verge
    FedEx unveils autonomous delivery robot - The Verge
    Microsoft's HoloLens 2: Why it's really all about the cloud | ZDNet
    Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3500 mixed reality headset for the factory - The Verge
    Mobile World Congress 2019: Doctor uses 5G to direct surgery live onstage - CNN
    Mobile World Congress Overshadowed by Huawei 5G Spying Standoff
    New FTC task force will take on tech monopolies - The Verge
    Opinion | Netflix Is the Most Intoxicating Portal to Planet Earth - The New York Times
    Estonian workers rescued a dog from freezing waters — and then discovered it was a wolf - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
    Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth – The blog of Andy Ihnatko, intermittently-beloved technology journalist.
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    Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko) | Twitter
    Philip Michaels (@PhilipMichaels) | Twitter