This Week in Google 609

• Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms
• Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google became big tech companies by acquiring hundreds of smaller companies
• Google Cloud brings in $4B in Q1, up 46 percent
• Google Fiber coming to another Utah city
• Sundar Pichai talks about COVID in India
• Google's Oscar commercial
• Apple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks
• Dogecoin price surges after tweets from Elon Musk and Mark Cuban
• Amazon to hike wages for over 500,000 workers
• 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
• What really happened at Basecamp
• YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue
• Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
• Comic unapologetic about putting garlic on fans shopping lists
• Google adds COVID restriction alerts, new road-trip mapping features, as vaccines enable safer travel
• Google Fi marks 6th birthday with new ‘Simply Unlimited’ plan that lacks ‘Unlimited Plus’ extras
• Google-run Android Earthquake Alerts System is now providing warnings in first two countries
• Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command
• Google Photos for Android rolling out new ‘Sharpen’ and ‘Denoise’ editor tools
• Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command
• YouTube adds even more video resolution controls and options on mobile
• It took Google 526 days to give you a way to search through Stadia’s 172 games
• Kevin Tofel: Looks like I’m going to be a GT Yellow Jacket
• What Old Tiktok-ERs Look like (by Ant)
• Be Mindful Of The Dance Moves You're Doing On Tiktok
• Pichai teases ‘significant’ announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal
• Google posts I/O 2021 schedule, starting with Sundar Pichai keynote on May 18 at 10 a.m
• Samsung unpacks its Galaxy Book Pro, Pro 360 and more
• Amazon sees ‘positive outcome’ in FCC’s SpaceX satellite ruling
• Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life
• Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
• Introducing Immersive View, A Fun New Way to Meet
• 90s Kids Guide to the Internet
• WaPo reports on brain interfaces with a touch of moral panic
• She never returned a VHS of Sabrina and 20 years later faced a felony
• Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL

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• Stacey - Ember Mug
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• Ant - I Finally Created an NFT (Why not?)
• Ant - My Newest Short Film
• Ant - Photo Pursuit: Stories Behind the Photographs

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Links

• Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms
• Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google became big tech companies by acquiring hundreds of smaller companies
• Google Cloud brings in $4B in Q1, up 46 percent
• Google Fiber coming to another Utah city
• Google's Oscar commercial
• Apple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks
• Dogecoin price surges after tweets from Elon Musk and Mark Cuban
• Amazon to hike wages for over 500,000 workers
• Moot left Google
• (Highly recommended to read ahead:) Casey Newton on what's behind Basecamp's reckoning
• YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue
• Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
• Comic unapologetic about putting garlic on fans shopping lists
• Google adds COVID restriction alerts, new road-trip mapping features, as vaccines enable safer travel
• Google Fi marks 6th birthday with new ‘Simply Unlimited’ plan that lacks ‘Unlimited Plus’ extras
• Google-run Android Earthquake Alerts System is now providing warnings in first two countries
• Google Assistant ‘Guacamole’ will let you ‘snooze’ alarms & ‘answer’ calls without ‘Hey Google’
• Google Photos for Android rolling out new ‘Sharpen’ and ‘Denoise’ editor tools
• Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command
• YouTube adds even more video resolution controls and options on mobile
• It took Google 526 days to give you a way to search through Stadia’s 172 games
• Kevin is accepted
• What Old Tiktok-ERs Look like (by Ant)
• Be Mindful Of The Dance Moves You're Doing On Tiktok
• Pichai teases ‘significant’ announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal
• Google posts I/O 2021 schedule, starting with Sundar Pichai keynote on May 18 at 10 a.m.
• Samsung unpacks its Galaxy Book Pro, Pro 360 and more
• Amazon sees ‘positive outcome’ in FCC’s SpaceX satellite ruling
• Can you splain this one to me: about pentagon IPs coming to life
• Daniel Kaminsky dies at 42
• Zoom immersive view
• 90s Kids Guide to the Internet (video)
• WaPo reports on brain interfaces with a touch of moral panic
• She never returned a VHS of Sabrina and 20 years later faced a felony
• Verizon looking to sell media assets, including Yahoo, Aol
• Ember Mug
• plant sensor
• picnic blanket
• Oscar ratings 9.85m
• I Finally Created an NFT (Why not?)
• My Newest Short Film
• Photo Pursuit: Stories Behind the Photographs