Sep 28th 2016
This Week in Google 372
Fail Whale on Ice
Hosted by
Jeff Jarvis,
Jason Howell
Google's Pixel event, Snapchat Spectacles, who will buy Twitter, bye bye Blackberry.
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Ron Richards,
Kevin Marks
This week, Jason Howell takes over for Leo as we discuss the rumors surrounding next week's Google event, Snapchat's new Spectacle camera sunglasses, and who could buy Twitter. Also: the end of Blackberry's hardware business, most Galaxy Note 7 users have returned their phones, and Elon musk has plans to send a million people to Mars.
- October 4th, Google will hold an event. Rumors suggest they will announce two "Pixel" branded phones, the new "Andromeda" OS, the Amazon Echo competitor Google Home, and more.
- Snapchat announced Spectacles, their new camera sunglasses, which shoot 10-second round videos.
- Google, Verizon, Salesforce, and even Disney have been rumored to be interested in buying Twitter.
- Blackberry announced today that they will no longer make hardware.
- Samsung says that over 60% of potentially unsafe Galaxy Note 7 phones have been returned.
- Elon Musk spoke at length yesterday about his desire to colonize Mars within his lifetime.
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Links
- Google VR SDK exits beta, developers can start building Daydream apps now
- Google reportedly working on ‘Pixel 3′ laptop featuring ‘Andromeda’ OS
- Google may launch Andromeda OS on rumored 7-inch Huawei 'Nexus' tablet
- Google's Own Echo-Like Device 'Google Home' Rumored to Cost $130
- $129 Google WiFi router that can team up with others tipped for Oct 4
- Google's upcoming 4K Chromecast might ditch the Chrome logo
- Snapchat unveils $130 connected sunglasses and rebrands as Snap, Inc.
- Google’s 18th Birthday
- Google doesn't even know its own birthday (but it's celebrating today) - CNET
- Introducing Google Station
- Google India debuts offline YouTube app, public WiFi expansion
- Chrome for Android will suggest articles, include ‘download’ feature to save pages, videos, & more
- Google Allo’s limitations explained in one word: “India”
- Related: Google Allo passes 1 million downloads on the Google Play Store
- Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Salesforce interested in buying Twitter
- Disney Working With Adviser on Potential Twitter Bid
- Twitter sees 34% more viewers in its second NFL Thursday Night Football livestream
- Twitter now lets any user create and curate Moments
- BlackBerry bails on building its own phones
- Samsung reveals 60% of 'unsafe' Galaxy Notes exchanged
- Users report that replacement Note 7s are still having battery issues, just not explosive ones
- Samsung going to great lengths to force return of recalled Note 7s
- Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars in six years
- Xiaomi Mi Box Android TV appears in the wild with a $69 price tag
- homebrew website club
- A frame - VR for the web
- Google Translate now converts Chinese into English with neural machine translation