Jul 31st 2019
This Week in Google 519
The Jimmy Hoffa Unboxing
Pixel 4 Gesture Control, the Filter Bubble Myth, and More!
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
- The dangers of listening to Jeff Jarvis
- YouTubers unionizing
- Pixel 4 features: gesture control, face unlock
- Why Google is paying people $5 for their face
- Apple buying Intel's modem business makes no damn sense
- Do filter bubbles really exist? NO. Why tech journalism gets it wrong
- Facebook quarterly results
- Alphabet has more cash than Apple
- Dish maverick building the next wireless carrier
- Is the T-Mobile/Sprint merger good for consumers?
- Chrome 76 kills Flash, fixes Incognito Mode
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Links
- (Don’t) hold the phone: new features coming to Pixel 4
- Google's New Gesture Controls Aren't Just for the Pixel
- Filings: Alphabet's cash pile reached $117B, surpassing Apple's as the world's largest for the first time in 10 years, as Apple'
- Google’s future beyond advertising is starting to become clearer
- The YouTubers Union Is Not Messing Around - VICE
- Facebook - Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2019 Results
- Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
- Google Chrome 76 arrives, makes it harder to use Flash and easier to dodge paywalls
- Google’s Titan security keys come to Japan, Canada, France and the UK
- Android Auto's first big refresh since debuting in 2014 is starting to roll out this week, with dark mode by default
- Huawei and Google Were Working On New Smart Speaker Before Trump’s Ban — The Information
- Google is phasing out the old Voice Search in favor of Assistant
- Jarvis rant on the quality of tech journalism
- A TV Maverick Is Going All-In on a New Wireless Bet - WSJ
- T-Mobile and Sprint merger approved by Justice Department - The Verge
- Spotify's paying subscriber base grows to 108m, as total Monthly Active User count hits 232m - Music Business Worldwide
- Jeff Jarvis's drive up to TWiT
- Your hands are the only interface you'll need
- Computers that can see
- Wyze Smart Plugs Preorder
- Sad newspaper numbers
- Pre-order this Future Tense story collection