This Week in Google 663

• Appeals court rules Texas social media law can proceed.
• Elon Musk Has Got Content Moderation All Figured Out: Delete The “Wrong” And “Bad” Content, But Leave The Rest (And Reinstate Trump).
• Elon Musk raises $7 billion in new funding for Twitter buyout.
• What Free Speech? Elon Musk Endorses EU’s Highly Censorial Approach To Content Moderation; Which Twitter Has Spent Years Fighting.
• Why Musk’s Twitter Bid Has Shaken Tesla Investors.
• Google announces Pixel 6a powered by Tensor processor for $449.
• Google gives us our first glimpse of the Pixel 7.
• Google previews the Pixel Watch, coming this fall with Pixel 7.
• The Pixel Tablet is coming in 2023.
• Google Glass’s successor teased at I/O.
• Google’s new ‘multisearch’ features hint towards an AR glasses future.
• Google Maps bringing a new ‘immersive view’ of select cities, Live View’s AR for other apps.
• TL;DR? Google Docs to Include Auto-Generated Summaries.
• Google Adopts 10-Step Skin Tone Scale to Teach Diversity to Its AI.
• AI Test Kitchen.
• Tech giants lost more than $1 trillion in value in the last three trading days.
• Google unveils new Results About You page, ecosystem-wide Google Account Safety Status.
• Google will let you talk to Assistant on the Nest Hub Max just by looking at the screen.
• RCS has over 500 million active users as Google digs at Apple yet again for ignoring the standard.
• I/O pinball.
• New EU rules would require chat apps to scan private messages for child abuse.
• We need laws and regulations on data use and privacy.
• The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead by James A. Dewar.
• Why Are People Still Blaming Facebook For Australia’s Terrible News Linking Tax Law?
• TikTok’s “Cacio E Pepe” Woman Cannot Catch A Break.
• Ohio bill would ban Facebook, Twitter from "censoring" users.
• The sound of a black hole.
• Clubhouse closes an undisclosed $4B valuation Series C round, as tech giants’ clones circle.
• This New Social App Is Boring, in a Good Way.
• Bitcoin plummet continues, now at less than half its November high.
• House where Facebook was created lists for $5.3M.
• Meta’s first-ever retail store just opened in the Bay Area. Here’s what it’s like.
• TikTok to surpass YouTube in US.
• Josh Hawley Introduces Laughably Stupid Copyright Term Reduction Bill.
• Taco Bell still life.

Picks:

• Mike - Keyboardio Atreus Mechanical Keyboard.
• Jeff - El Salvador expected to default as Bitcoin plummets.
• Jeff - The QWERTY Keyboard Is Tech’s Biggest Unsolved Mystery.
• Ant - Incredible moment schoolgirl loses her shoe at the starting block, stops to put it back on, and still WINS 200m race with seconds to spare.
• Ant - Congratulations to the hardheads.
• Ant - Prep track and field stars shine at North Bay League championships.

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• Transcripts: This Week in Google 663, Transcript

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• Appeals court rules Texas social media law can proceed
• Mike's article: Elon Musk Has Got Content Moderation All Figured Out: Delete The “Wrong” And “Bad” Content, But Leave The Rest (
• Elon Musk raises $7 billion in new funding for Twitter buyout
• "Mike's article: What Free Speech? Elon Musk Endorses EU’s Highly Censorial Approach To Content Moderation; Which Twitter Has Sp
• Why Musk’s Twitter Bid Has Shaken Tesla Investors
• Google announces Pixel 6a powered by Tensor processor for $449
• Google gives us our first glimpse of the Pixel 7
• Google previews the Pixel Watch, coming this fall with Pixel 7
• The Pixel Tablet is coming in 2023
• Google Glass’s successor teased at I/O
• Google’s new ‘multisearch’ features hint towards an AR glasses future
• Google Maps bringing a new ‘immersive view’ of select cities, Live View’s AR for other apps
• TL;DR? Google Docs to Include Auto-Generated Summaries
• Google Adopts 10-Step Skin Tone Scale to Teach Diversity to Its AI
• AI Test Kitchen
• Google unveils new Results About You page, ecosystem-wide Google Account Safety Status
• Google will let you talk to Assistant on the Nest Hub Max just by looking at the screen
• RCS has over 500 million active users as Google digs at Apple yet again for ignoring the standard
• I/O pinball
• New EU rules would require chat apps to scan private messages for child abuse
• Stacey's article: We need laws and regulations on data use and privacy
• Mike's article: Why Are People Still Blaming Facebook For Australia’s Terrible News Linking Tax Law?
• TikTok’s “Cacio E Pepe” Woman
• Ohio bill would ban Facebook, Twitter from "censoring" users
• The sound of a black hole
• Remember Clubhouse? Just raised another round at $4b valuation
• BeReal Is the Right Kind of Boring
• House where Facebook was created lists for $5.3M
• Meta’s first-ever retail store just opened in the Bay Area. Here’s what it’s like.
• TikTok to surpass YouTube in US
• Mike's article: Josh Hawley Introduces Laughably Stupid Copyright Term Reduction Bill
• Taco Bell still life
• El Salvador expected to default as bitcoin plummets
• Don't Give Up
• Congratulations to the hardheads
• Back to Back, Having Fun, Now Go Shock the World