Sep 25th 2019
This Week in Google 527
Quantum Supremacy Achieved
Amazon Echo Everywhere, Quantum Supremacy
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Kevin Tofel
This Week's Stories
- Whatever happened to Patch?
- Amazon announces Echo in everything from earbuds to glasses to ovens
- Do we trust Amazon?
- Pixelbook Go looks underwhelming
- Quantum Supremacy Achieved
- Google wins the right to be forgotten case
- Chrome update crashes Avid on Macs
- ChromeOS 77 is here
- Facebook Horizon will go nowhere
- Facebook buys CTRL Labs
- Facebook says politicians can say anything
- Pop-up criminals busted
- ImageNet Roulette
- The Texas Instruments graphing calculator monopoly
Picks of the Week
- Leo's Tool: Sonos Move
- Jeff's Number: FAANG stocks lost $58b in value after Trump smashed technology
- Ant's Thing: Coffee house back home with a message
- Kevin's Stuff: YouTube series. On Python. From... MICROSOFT?!?
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Links
- Exclusive: Google’s next laptop is ‘Pixelbook Go’ w/ 13.3-inch 4K display
- Thoughts on the Pixelbook Go leaks
- Google may have just ushered in an era of ‘quantum supremacy’
- Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ!
- What Quantum Supremacy Means for Bitcoin
- Google wins landmark right to be forgotten case - BBC News
- Google takes blame for unbootable Macs
- War over EU copyright directive begins as Google refuses to pay French publishers
- Gingras' post on this
- Google releases trove of deepfakes to help researchers
- Facebook unveils Horizon, a VR massive multiplayer world coming in 2020, and will shut down existing VR experiences Facebook Spa
- Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs, which develops non-invasive neural interfaces for computing, like a bracelet; sources: size of de
- Facebook will not label or remove politicians' rule-breaking posts
- Everything we care about from the Alexa event
- Alexa can mimic celebrities, starting with Samuel L. Jackson
- Amazon Sidewalk is a wireless protocol that can reach up to a mile away
- Alexa Twerking Bear
- Disney's Bob Iger says he pulled the plug on Disney buying Twitter at the last minute because the nastiness on the platform is "
- Google Play Pass: Enjoy apps and games without ads or in-app purchases
- Exclusive: New Google Nest Wifi adds an Assistant speaker - 9to5Google
- Google is bringing Assistant to people without internet access
- Google promotes synonyms in search
- WARP is here (sorry it took so long)
- ‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You? - The New York Times
- WeWork's Adam Neumann quits as chief executive
- Boston Dynamics’ Spot is leaving the laboratory
- Boston Dynamics’ Atlas can now do an impressive gymnastics routine
- Sonos Move
- FAANG stocks lost $58b in value after Trump smashed technology
- Coffee house back home with a message
- YouTube series. On Python. From... MICROSOFT?!?