Apr 14th 2021
This Week in Google 607
Let's Go to the Terminal
Pixel 5a 5G rumors, Pixel Watch, CCMI is dead, Project CHIP
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- Celebrating Johannes Gutenberg
- Google announces Pixel 5A 5G by denying rumors it’s canceled
- Google Pixel Watch Leaks With Dazzling Looks To Challenge Apple - Watch
- Samsung's third Unpacked event of 2021 set for April 28
- Is content moderation a dead end?
- Podcast: LoRaWAN tries to co-opt Amazon Sidewalk
- Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T have pulled the plug on CCMI, their big RCS project
- Project CHIP embraces a timeline and the blockchain
- FCC Permits Hot-car Sensors to Save Children
- Biden Reassures Chip Summit of Bipartisan Support for Funds
- Bridgerton the TikTok musical creators signed by CAA
- Spotify Continues to Remove Joe Rogan Episodes — 42 Shows Deleted
- Zoom zero-day discovery makes calls safer, hackers $200,000 richer
- NSA Uncovers Serious Flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server, Urges Public to Patch
- Amazon’s Alabama Union Vote: Here’s What Happens Next
- Facebook is testing a video speed-dating app called Sparked
- Google Assistant can now find/ring silenced iPhones as Duplex expands to online food orders
- Android Heads Up! to keep you from walking into a pole
- Google shuts down the shopping app
- Google Play Movies & TV app to shut down in June
- Google I/O 2021 homepage gets a countdown and Breakout easter egg
- Google Pay ‘Spring Challenge’ offers a $30 reward for using the new app
- Google discontinues ‘Oh So Orange’ Pixel Buds, sold out at all retailers
- Steak-umm Reignites Twitter Beef With Neil DeGrasse Tyson Over Science: ‘Log Off Bro’
- Coinbase opens at $102 billion valuation on the first day of public trading
- TikTok as wellness app: "mental pacifier"
Picks:
- Stacey: You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
- Jeff: Donald Trump Caused The Techlash
- Jeff: Here’s how Americans rank the 50 states, per YouGov
- Ant: The Ol' Air Freshener Excuse
- Ant: The Real House Plants of Sonoma County
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Links
- Today's Doodle
- Google announces Pixel 5A 5G by denying rumors it’s canceled
- Google Pixel Watch Leaks With Dazzling Looks To Challenge Apple Watch
- Samsung's third Unpacked event of 2021 set for April 28 - CNET
- Good Ben Evans analysis; Is content moderation a dead-end?
- Podcast: LoRaWAN tries to co-opt Amazon Sidewalk
- Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T have pulled the plug on CCMI, their big RCS project
- Project CHIP embraces a timeline and the blockchain
- FCC Permits Hot-car Sensors to Save Children
- Sources: White House chip shortage meeting with Alphabet, Intel, TSMC, GM, and others is to air grievances and isn't expected to
- For Ant: Bridgerton the TikTok musical creators signed by CAA
- Spotify Continues to Remove Joe Rogan Episodes — 42 Shows Deleted
- Zoom zero-day discovery makes calls safer, hackers $200,000 richer
- NSA Uncovers Serious Flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server, Urges Public to Patch
- FB tests speed-dating app
- Union voted down
- Google Assistant can now find/ring silenced iPhones as Duplex expands to online food orders
- Android Heads Up! to keep you from walking into a pole
- Google shuts down shopping app
- Google Play Movies & TV app to shut down in June - 9to5Google
- Google I/O 2021 homepage gets a countdown and Breakout easter egg
- [Update: Available now] Google Pay ‘Spring Challenge’ offers a $30 reward for using the new app
- Google discontinues ‘Oh So Orange’ Pixel Buds, sold out at all retailers
- Steak-umm v. Neil Degrasse Tyson: epistemological battle on Twitter
- Coinbase opens with $102b valuation
- You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
- Plug for Nirit: her essay in Techdirt
- How Americans rate states
- I'm Not Against Guns, But Pat Byrnes Sums This Up Nicely
- Peaceful. Hopeful.
- The Reason I Fired Up TikTok Last Week