This Week in Google 603

• New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras
• What Really Happened at ‘Reply All’?
• Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future?
• The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way
• Alphabet X: ‘Maya’ was a canceled ‘tricorder’ project to analyze skin health with lightwaves
• Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on ‘Incognito’ Browsing
• Google’s Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox
• Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism"
• US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations
• FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc
• What Facebook sees in newsletters
• Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don’t follow them
• The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon
• Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years
• Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to “Technoking"
• JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace
• Nathan ‘Doggface’ Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT
• The Freedom Phone
• California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law
• Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps
• Live Caption comes to Chrome
• YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they’re published
• YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US
• Google Family Link lets parents set ‘always allowed’ apps, get more detailed activity reports
• A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed
• Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees

Picks

• Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant
• Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16
• Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information
• Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal
• Ant: My YouTube Short

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Links

• New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras
• What Really Happened at ‘Reply All’?
• Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future?
• Podcast listening #s
• Alphabet X: ‘Maya’ was a canceled ‘tricorder’ project to analyze skin health with lightwaves
• Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on ‘Incognito’ Browsing - Bloomberg
• Google’s Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox - The Verge
• Google call Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism"
• US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations
• FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc.
• Casey Newton on FB v Substack newsletters
• Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don’t follow them - The Verge
• The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon
• Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years
• Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to “Technoking"
• JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace - The New York Times
• Nathan ‘Doggface’ Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT (Fleetwood Mac and Ocean Spray guy)
• The Freedom Phone
• California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law
• Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps
• Live Caption comes to Chrome
• YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they’re published
• YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US
• Google Family Link letting parents set ‘always allowed’ apps, get more detailed activity reports
• That killer drone footage
• Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees
• Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant
• A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16
• Whalenet
• "FLOSS WEEKLY 621 DRIES BUYTAERT AND DRUPAL"
• MY YouTube Short