May 1st 2019
This Week in Google 506
Knee Deep in Schnitt
Google I/O Preview, Facebook F8
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
This Week's Stories
- Google I/O Preview
- Facebook's New Look: Bye-Bye, Blue, Hello Groups and Stories
- Facebook Dating: Tinder for Grandma
- Google Will Let You Limit Your Location History
- Oculus Quest and Rift S Launch May 21st - is Oculus Still Worth $2 Billion?
- Instagram Adds Camera, Hides Links
- FB Messenger Focuses on Friends
- Eric Schmidt Leaves Google Board of Directors
- Google Employees' Protest Protests Protest Protests
- YouTube Pays the Price for Being Woke
- Alphabet Q1 Results
- Microsoft 2019 Voice Report
- At F8, Zuck Doubles Down on Privacy
- RIP Anki :(
- Zuck Builds a "Sleep Box" for his Wife - It's Not What You Think
- Amazon Prime Speeds Up to 1-Day Shipping
- Ring to Launch Crime News Show?
- Casper's Cool Glow Light
- A Guide to all that Great Food in Billions
- Julian Assange Gets 50 Weeks in Gaol
- Cheddar Gets $200M Cheddar
- NYT Goes Full Moral Panic Over Targeted Ads
- The Guardian Breaks Even
- Burger King Rolls out the Impossible Whopper Nationwide
Picks of the Week
- Jeff's Number: 767-2676
- Stacey's Thing: Wyze Sense
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Links
- Google I/O 2019 preview: What to expect in Android, Pixel, Chrome and more
- Google employees protest retaliation with international sit-in
- The cost of being Woke, Google edition
- Google says it will roll out a new tool that lets users limit how long it keeps location, search, and browsing data
- Alphabet misses on Q1 revenues of $36.3B; EPS of $9.50 weighed down by the $1.7B European fine | TechCrunch
- At F8, Zuckerberg unveils Facebook's new mantra: 'The future is private' - CNET
- Zuckerberg Promises 'the Future Is Private,' but Facebook Will Still Be Facebook
- The 5 biggest announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference keynote
- Facebook launches a major redesign that ditches the blue bar at the top
- Facebook adds ‘secret crushes’ so you can see which friends are thirsting after you
- I heard groans when Facebook announced its new Dating features
- Facebook Messenger will get desktop apps, co-watching, emoji status
- The Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S launch on May 21st, and preorders open today
- Facebook at F8 announces new Instagram camera and shopping features - CNET
- Mark Zuckerberg builds 'sleep box' to help wife maximize rest - CNET
- Amazon Will Make One-Day Shipping Free For All Prime Members
- A doorbell company owned by Amazon wants to start producing “crime news” and it’ll definitely end well » Nieman Journalism Lab
- Alphabet says Eric Schmidt and Diane Greene will not seek re-election to Alphabet's board
- Google Docs picks up native offline support, no more browser extension needed
- Google says Android TV now has 5,000 apps and games, up from 3,000 about a year ago
- Get lost in the new Earth Timelapse, now on mobile
- Swipe for more: Tiles on Wear OS by Google
- How a Google office became a sticky-note art gallery
- Chrome OS 74 arrives for enterprises; here’s what it brings
- Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service agent aimed at small US businesses
- Julian Assange: Wikileaks co-founder jailed over bail breach
- Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide
- The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million - Recode
- Cheddar bought for $200m
- Opinion | These Ads Think They Know You - The New York Times
- 2019 Voice report: Consumer adoption of voice technology and digital assistants
- Microsoft 2019 Voice Report
- AWS Deepracer
- The Casper Glow Light
- Billions Season 3 Dining Guide
- Guardian breaks even