This Week in Google 532

This Week's Stories

•  Should Jason Howell delete all his old emails?
•  Breaking News: Twitter bans political ads
•  Google struggling with transparency issues
•  Google will buy Fitbit: will this save WearOS?
•  Moto 360 will relaunch in 2019
•  Apple gains in wearables, loses in iPhones
•  Advances in hearing aids
•  Google earnings
•  Amazon Fresh makes grocery delivery free for Prime Members
•  Stacey explains Google's BERT “Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers”
•  Carriers gang up to serve RCS
•  Jason Howell's Pixel 4 Review
•  Google brings .new to the web
•  Andrew explains .new
•  Ant's modeling pictures
•  Google Maps the Kincade fire
•  Google finally kills flash
•  Facebook News tab includes Breitbart
•  Netflix tests variable speed
•  Hellvetica is the evilest font

Picks of the Week

•  Stacey's Thing: Twinkly lights
•  Ant's Inspirations: Breast Cancer Awareness Month and North Carolina Central University's Nothing But the Arts
•  Jeff's Numbers: The Internet at 50, How much time @Jack spends on Twitter, and The Precautionary Principle
•  Jason's Tool: Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier

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Links

• Google is reportedly trying to buy Fitbit
• The Moto 360 is being re-released for 2019 w/ new internals, familiar design
• How Google buying Fitbit could be a win-win, even for Fitbit device owners
• Alphabet reports Q3 revenue of $40.5B, up 20% YoY, operating income of $9.2B
• Google says that by the end of this year it will stop indexing and ranking Flash content in its search engine
• Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others
• Google mapping, constantly updating maps of California fires
• Google grappling with internal trust issues, Pichai concedes in video
• BERT improves search
• Netflix testing variable playback speed on Android
• Read the Letter Facebook Employees Sent to Mark Zuckerberg About Political Ads
• FB's news tab announcement with WSJ head
• Breitbart inclusion in FB news tab draws controversy & defense from Instagram head
• Amazon axes $14.99 Amazon Fresh fee, making grocery delivery free for Prime members to boost use
• THIS JUST IN: Twitter to ban political advertising
• Google will replace Home devices bricked due to latest firmware update
• Revamped Google Home app rolling out
• Google launches TensorBoard.dev and TensorFlow Enterprise
• SiriusXM is coming to Google Assistant smart speakers and displays
• YouTube Music rolling out desktop PWA with keyboard shortcuts
• Google Photos adds whimsical Halloween Easter Egg
• Breakthrough in fast-charging for electric cars
• Helvetica’s evil twin, Hellvetica, will haunt your nightmares
• Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier
• Precaution about the precautionary principle
• Fifty
• Nothing But The Arts
• BCAM
• Twinkly