Nov 16th 2016
This Week in Google 379
Ixnay on the Eet-tway
Fake news on Facebook.
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Does Facebook have a responsibility to weed out fake news stories? Google releases PhotoScan to digitize your old pictures. Google Translate gets some machine learning improvements. Twitter kicks out alt-right users. BLU phones sending user info to China. Snapchat Spectacles will be available in Tulsa next - and Snapchat files a secret IPO.
- Stacey's Thing: June oven
- Jeff's Number: Facebook's new measurement strategies
- Leo's Thing: 2016 MacBook Pro
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Links
- Trump is back to tweeting like Trump again
- Trump Slips The Press Pool (Again) And Shows He Won't Play By The Media's Rules
- GOP tells FCC to just stop what it’s doing until Trump is inaugurated
- Jarvis on fake news
- Zuckerberg: Facebook will crack down on fake news
- How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News
- Google looking into grossly inaccurate top news search result displayed as final popular-vote tally
- Source: Facebook shelved an update to identify fake news stories because it would have affected right-wing news sites
- Twitter suspends several high-profile accounts associated with the alt-right
- Twitter stepping up anti-abuse features w/ expanded ‘mute’ capabilities, new reporting method
- IoT worm can hack Philips Hue lightbulbs, spread across cities
- Samsung Buying Automobile Accessory Company Harman for $8 Billion
- Google launches PhotoScan for iOS, Android to turn print into digital photos
- Google Translate just got a lot smarter
- Google Play Music update adds machine learning and a fresh new look
- Spotify is writing massive amounts of junk data to storage drives
- Check out these photos of Google’s cancelled Project Ara and its full spec sheet
- Everything you need to know about Google Daydream
- TITANPOINTE
- Snap's Spectacles are now available for purchase, but there's a catch
- Snapchat files for one of the biggest tech IPOs in years
- June Oven