Intelligent Machines 253

Google buys a satellite company, FCC hacked thanks to John Oliver, Honeywell challenging the Nest thermostat, and more.

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• Transcripts: This Week in Google 253 (Transcript)

Links

• Entertainment Weekly, the genesis
• Google buys Skybox Imaging for $500m
• Related: video sample of its work
• A jerky attack on Sergey for saying he shouldn't have been involved in G+
• Google is as Google does
• Google imagines people as applications
• Google in talks to buy music streaming service Songza for about $15M, according to sources
• Google preserves street art
• Google+ Photos app update automatically sends Chromebook pics to the cloud
• Grab the remote: Chromebooks can now watch Play Movies, TV shows offline
• Google Now will wake you up before your stop
• Google Now adds call button when it can to call reminder cards
• Google travel search now has I'm-feeling-lucky inspiration feature: Google tells you where to get off
• Google Public Alerts now include Tweets to help answer important questions
• YouTube Co-Founders Split As Hurley Spins Out MixBit And Chen Joins Google Ventures
• The FCC Was Hacked After John Oliver Called for Net Neutrality Trolls | Motherboard
• FCC says it wasn't hacked
• The heat is on: Honeywell is finally challenging the Nest thermostat | The Verge
• Tweetdeck hacked, borked, taken down, complained about....
• David Karp interviews Obama for Tumblr
• Stuck in Vegas airport, Canadian man lipsync's celine dion in brilliant video
• Why Jeff isn't driving across the Bay Bridge
• See what your apps & extensions have been up to
• Henry Blodget source says Uber's gross rev running at $10b
• Radio Shack stock headed to 0
• Hodor Keyboard