Aug 20th 2017
This Week in Tech 628
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Leo Laporte
Android O, Hate Site Shut Down, Google Genericide, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Next week: All the Android you can handle! Google to launch Android O. Essential Phone arrives. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 announcement. Squeeze the Pixel 2. Is "google" the next "escalator"? Jeff Immelt may be Uber's next CEO. Intel makes Coffee Lake a reality, and hints at the 10nm chip beyond: Ice Lake. The Daily Stormer gets kicked off GoDaddy, Google, Cloudflare, Russia, and more. Katie Roof was not alive for the last total US solar eclipse. Mike Elgan knows the best baker in Barcelona. Matt Cutts is trying to not wear a tie for 30 days.
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Links
- Google will livestream official Android O launch on August 21st
- Android O Eclipse countdown timer goes live
- Eclipse Megamovie 2017
- NASA Eclipse page
- Eclipse Traffic Info
- Google Pixel 2: Revealed in HTC FCC filing w/ Android 8.0.1, ‘Active Edge’ squeeze feature
- Essential
- After missing initial June ship date, Essential says Essential Phone models with black finish will begin shipping within 7 days
- Intel claims i7-8700K to be 11% faster than 7700K
- Intel Officially Reveals Post-8th Generation Core Architecture Code Name: Ice Lake, Built on 10nm+
- Jeff Immelt has emerged as the front-runner to become Uber’s CEO
- Supreme Court asked to nullify the Google trademark
- Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
- After sustained pressure, CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince says the firm has stopped protecting Daily Stormer from DDoS attacks
- CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbitrary” and “dangerous”
- Squarespace says it’s removing ‘a group of sites’ as internet cracks down on hate speech
- Spotify removes ‘hate bands’ from its streaming library
- After Charlottesville, Mark Zuckerberg pledges to remove violent threats from Facebook
- What Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others are doing to tackle hate speech
- Apple blocks Apple Pay support on sites promoting white nationalism & hate groups