My other car is a cargo bike | The Vergecast

Sure, you could drive to the grocery store and to school. But wouldn’t you rather grab a few hundred of your friends and bike-bus everywhere? The Verge’s Andy Hawkins joins the show to tell us all about his adventures with electric cargo bikes, and why he thinks they’re the ride of the future. After that, Lauren Feiner calls in from just outside a courthouse in Virginia, where she’s watching the remedies trial in Google’s adtech monopoly case. Google already lost the case; what happens next is still anyone’s guess. Finally, David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com!) about how to feel about summarizing YouTube videos with AI. The short version: you should feel a lot of things.

Watch Andy's latest video here: https://youtu.be/ypUGjGWo_hg

0:00 Introduction and AI Gadget Update
01:01 Today's Agenda: Electric Cargo Bikes and Google Ad Tech Trial
01:48 Electric Cargo Bikes: A Personal Journey
04:52 The Rise of Cargo Bikes During the Pandemic
12:33 Challenges and Community Solutions for Biking
22:07 Future of Cargo Bikes and Infrastructure
29:24 Ad Tech Trials and LinkedIn Ads
29:56 LinkedIn Ads: Targeting the Right Audience
30:46 Live from the Google Ad Tech Trial
32:05 Understanding the Google Ad Tech Monopoly Case
34:39 Government's Proposed Remedies for Google
39:27 Google's Defense and Counterarguments
45:53 Judge's Perspective and Key Questions
50:04 The Broader Implications of the Trial
56:08 Vergecast Hotline: AI and YouTube Summarization
01:03:31 Conclusion

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