Jul 24th 2019
This Week in Google 518
It's a Hot Mesh
Hosted by
Stacey Higginbotham,
Jason Howell
Pixel 4, Facebook Fine, Nest Max, and more!
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Kevin Tofel
This Week's Stories
- Your face is worth 5 bucks to Google
- Facebook fined $5 billion by FTC but doesn't have to change much
- Pixel 4 rumors: no fingerprint sensor?
- Google bans repair business ads in search
- Google settles lawsuits over Wi-Fi slurping, age discrimination, and children's data
- Google patents a voice-activated search engine for toddlers
- Google Nest Max coming Sept. 9 as part of Google's "Helpful Home"
- Firewalla network monitoring tool review
- Chromebook Virtual Desktop getting 4-finger swipe
- Google fixes Incognito Mode
- Pixel Slate with a keyboard on sale
- Pixelbook Atlas hits FCC
- Google gets strict on Chrome extension privacy rules
- Chrome bug bounty bonanza
- Dell’s Sarien Chromebook will have integrated LTE
- DoJ goes after big tech for antitrust
- Netflix offers a mobile-only plan in India for 3 bucks
Picks of the Week
- Jason's Pick: Gallery Go: a fast, helpful way to organize your photos offline
- Kevin's Stuff: YouTube Channel - Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer!
- Stacey's Thing: Soma Innofit smart bra
- Karsten's Wife's Pick: /r/aBraThatFits
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.
Links
- Google bought my friend's face for $5
- A new set of Pixel 4 leaked images and a series of renders show it will have a large forehead bezel
- An Open Letter to the FTC on Google’s Banning of Repair Business Ads
- Google wraps up lawsuits over age discrimination, Wi-Fi snooping, child data sharing
- Google is working on a search engine for toddlers powered by voice search
- Google Exec On The Future Of Nest: "No One Asked For The Smart Home"
- Related: Google’s Nest Hub Max will be released on September 9th
- Tofel: Where does your connected device data go? Firewalla tells you that and more.
- Virtual desks for Chromebooks getting a swipe gesture to switch desktops
- Pixel Slate is $100 off and includes a free Google or Brydge keyboard
- New Google device passes through FCC, possibly Pixelbook successor ‘Atlas’
- Google enforcing stricter privacy rules for Chrome extensions this October
- Google will now pay up to $30,000 for reporting a Chrome bug
- The next LTE Chromebook is likely to come from Dell
- U.S. government issues stunning rebuke, historic $5 billion fine against Facebook for repeated privacy violations
- Did the F.T.C. Go Soft on Facebook?
- Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies
- US attorney general William Barr says Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors
- Google Photos for Android adds live video previews in main timeline
- Google bans DarkMatter certificates from Chrome and Android
- Google is making it easier to monitor the battery life of wireless earbuds in Android
- Google’s SMILY is reverse image search for cancer diagnosis
- "Not designed for children" warning appearing on some Play Store listings
- Court: Deutsche Telekom must change zero-rating service
- Netflix launches mobile-only streaming plan in India for less than $3 per month
- Gallery Go: a fast, helpful way to organize your photos offline
- YouTube Channel - Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer!
- Soma Innofit Smart Bra
- A Bra That Fits Subreddit