This Week in Google 524

This Week's Stories

•  Android 10 arrives for Pixel phones
•  YouTube pays $170 Million to settle child privacy complaints
•  Google secretly gives your personal data to advertisers using cookie syncing
•  Ad tech will destroy podcasting as we know it
•  Half of all state Attorneys General probing Google
•  Social Media #ChickenSandwichWars wipe out US chicken supplies
•  Google Sidewalk Labs teams up with Ontario teachers to finance infrastructure projects
•  USB 4 - a standard, or a "standard"?
•  XKCD.com hacked!
•  Are filter bubbles real, and does Google abuse them? (No and no)
•  Facebook tests hiding likes
•  Dorian tweets
•  Are Chromebooks dying too young?
•  Jack hacked! Hitgirl too! Twitter responds by killing SMS tweeting.
•  Gmail can now warn co-workers not to send you email while you're on vacation

Picks of the Week

•  Stacey's Thing: YourThings from Georgia Tech and UNC
•  Jeff's Numbers: Project Jaquard's $877 Backpack Strap, and $70 off Facebook Portal

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Links

• Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers | Financial Times
• Google has secret webpages that feed your personal data to advertisers, report says
• Too many Chromebooks are dying early deaths - Google needs to step up
• Alphabet, Sidewalk Labs, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan launch a holding company
• Danny Sullivan responds to DuckDuckGo complaint
• YouTube will invest $100m in children's video
• What is Cookie Syncing and How Does it Work?
• Android 10 officially released for Google Pixel phones
• The Pixel 3A gets proper dual-SIM support, thanks to Android 10
• YouTube to pay $170 million in FTC child privacy settlement
• Facebook confirms it may follow Instagram’s lead and start hiding like counts
• AOC on whom she's blocking and why
• Williamson deletes tweet suggesting power of mind can move storm
• In fairness, Trump uses Sharpie to move storm with his mind
• Three Takeaways From the Hack of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Account
• Chloë Grace Moretz's Twitter Hacked, Apparently by Same Group That Took Over Jack Dorsey's
• Triangulation: XKCD's Randall Munroe
• Google planning big changes to the way Chrome tabs work, but you might not notice
• Google Camera loses Smart Burst on Pixel 3 in favor of Top Shot
• Google launches TensorFlow machine learning framework for graphical data
• Android Auto, One, and TV pick up new logos as part of recent rebranding
• Android 10 transforms hearing aids into Bluetooth headsets
• Google Play Store starts autoplaying videos later this month
• Gmail can now tell your co-workers you’re on vacation BEFORE they email you
• Google Calendar will guess your working hours and warn colleagues
• USB4 is ready: Twice as fast, smaller, and hitting devices in 2020
• FB Portal on sale on Amazon; $70 off
• $877 jacquard strap
• YourThings from Georgia Tech and UNC