Show Notes

* Home Automation

* Google replacing verbal assistant replies when turning off lights with Home/Hub

* Wyze launches $15 pair of smart plugs

* Android News

* Sound Amplifier is an Accessibility app that helps people hear clearly

* Google may let users rate apps through an in-app dialog.

* Google Fi limits data SIMs to 4 per account

* Google blames US Carriers for delay in RCS deployment

* Google has made Android Auto work more like your phone, for better or worse

* App News

* Alaska, Ryanair, Air France, KLM, EasyJet, and Lufthansa boarding passes can now be saved to Google Pay

* Gallery Go makes many Photos features available offline

* Messenger Lite passes 500 million installs.

* Google Photos has 1 billion active users

* Solid Explorer now works with Scoped Storage on Android Q

* In Other News

* Happy 6th Birthday Chromecast

* T-Mobile and Sprint to merge, sell prepaid assets to Dish to start new network

* Ultraviolet shuts down July 31st

* Congress proposes banning infinite scroll and autoplay video