Apr 22nd 2020
This Week in Google 556
Internet Pretzels
Google Debit Card, Zoom Burnout
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Google Debit Card, Zoom Burnout
- Google is working on a debit card to rival Apple card
- Google posts testing center maps
- Zoom burnout is now a thing
- Microsoft: how to preserve privacy while tracking COVID-19
- Amazon shuts down 6,000 accounts for price gouging
- Twitter tried to tell us that the government is spying on you. A judge just said they can't.
- Tubi is mining credit bureaus to target ads at you
- Palantir will track COVID-19 for Trump
- Is Twitter good again?
- Fortnite on Google Play
- Stuntmen on Twitter
Picks of the Week
- Leo's Tool: How-To: Data Tracking for a Sourdough Starter - Twilio
- Stacey's Thing: Folding@Home on a Pi
- Jeff's Numbers: Twitter discovers White Castle paté
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Links
- Google working on a smart debit card
- Google says it is now displaying information for over 2,000 COVID-19 testing centers
- Google displays unemployment benefit details based on your state
- Facebook's biggest investment: $5.7b for 10% of India's Jio
- Amazon has suspended 6,000 seller accounts globally for coronavirus price gouging
- U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal govt surveillance requests
- Snooty Times journos ask: Is Twitter good?
- Tubi taps credit bureau for personalized streaming TV ads | FierceVideo
- Gmail now blocking 18 million Coronavirus scams every day
- Microsoft's security stance
- Peter Thiel’s controversial Palantir is helping build a coronavirus tracking tool for the Trump admin
- Senator demands Tim Cook be personally accountable for any contact tracing privacy failure
- Head of Postal Workers Union Says Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months
- Jeff post on the open information ecosystem of medicine and what we have to learn from it
- Jeff Twittertyphoon on awful NYTimes reporting on a preprint, relevant to the post above
- Zoom to revamp bug bounty program, bring in more security experts
- Google makes ‘Hey Google’ sensitivity setting official, gradually rolling out
- Google Fi gets iPhone eSIM support
- Google Meet adding Gmail integration, grid layout, improved low-light quality, more
- YouTube Music to improve music discovery with new Explore tab
- Google Play Store pushes health/fitness apps, Android TV gets ‘stay mindful & fit’ row
- Google Meet’s Zoom-like gallery view is rolling out now globally
- Free 'Sonos Radio' streaming music service launched with 60,000 radio stations
- Fortnite' is finally available through the Google Play Store
- Quarantined stuntmen
- How-To: Data Tracking for a Sourdough Starter - Twilio
- Folding@Home on a Pi
- Twitter discovers White Castle pate