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Sarah and guest host Iyaz Akhtar on Google+ white space options, Facebook email, Path's big valuation, StumbleUpon's Timeline feature, Vimeo on Pinterest, & more!

Leo & Sarah show off the hottest Black Friday deal apps, Google search trumps Safari, Comcast offers live TV via iPad, Vital Signs Camera, NYTimes The Collection, & more!

Amber & Sarah on Twitter's upcoming IPO, Facebook's auto-play mobile videos, live Q&A for Google+ Hangouts, Gingercast is perfect for Vine, Chipotle is social video king, & more!

Sarah & guest host Iyaz Akhtar chat about how to opt-out of Pinterest tracking, selectively blocking websites with the Self-Control app, when Google+ shines above other social networks, & more!

The biggest battle of CES was Amazon Alexa vs Google Assistant.Watch the full episode: https://twit.tv/TWiT/701

Apple takes Facebook and Google to the woodshed for taking too much data from users.For the full episode, go to https://twit.tv/twit/704​

Google's Arts & Culture app matches your selfie with famous works of art. What portrait do you look like?For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/440

According to Android Police, Google is rumored to be planning a Pixel 3 laptop running a combination of Android and Chrome OS.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/285.

The New York Times loves things made out of dead trees. Newspapers, for example. And now, virtual reality goggles. The Times is getting ready to bundle Google Cardboard with its print edition.

Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Mathew Ingram talk about the mystery of Google and DeepMind's Artificial Intelligence ethics board.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/382

Google buys HTC's Pixel team for $1.1 billion, or about $550,000/person. Didn't they just do this with Motorola? What's going on here?For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twit/633

After devoting the entire effort of the company for weeks, Google has debuted an improved hamburger emoji with the cheese on top of the meat.Watch the full episode here:https://twit.tv/twig/433

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron discuss Google Earth for HTC Vive, Serious Sam VR's dual-wielding in VR, and a wireless upgrade kit from TPCAST.Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/twich/390

Google unveiled a new service called YouTube Gaming. As the name suggests, the site is for live streams of games and game commentary. The site will have about 25,000 pages that are each dedicated to a specific game, to a game publisher or a gaming celebrity.

From payday loans to man-in-the-middle malware attacks, Google removed 1.7 billion bad ads from its pages last year. Particularly interesting were the 1300 accounts disabled for "tabloid cloaking."For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twit/599.

On All About Android, Jason Howell, Huyen Tue Dao, and Duncan Jaffrey discuss how Google's Play billing requirements are convincing Amazon to limit the digital content it sells on mobile platforms.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/577

On All About Android, Jason Howell, Florence Ion, Ron Richards, and guest Chris Lacy read an email from a fan who has a solid replacement for Google's once-free photo and video cloud storage.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/540

On iOS Today, Mikah Sargent demonstrates how to free up iPhone space using Google Photos as online backup/storage for free. Leo Laporte adds that there are optimized storage options via iCloud.Full episode at twit.tv/ios509

On All About Android, Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman discuss Google's newly launched pilot program for developers who wish to use alternative billing solutions in their apps.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/594#Android #PlayStore #Developers

On All About Android, Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion discuss a feature coming to TV sets that ship with Google TV that allows users to bypass the smart features altogether and set it up as a "basic" TV set.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/514

On Tech News Weekly, Mikah Sargent talks with Ryne Hager from Android Police about Google's announcement that it will be bringing its data tracking limitations that began with the Chrome browser to its Android-based devices.For this story and more, check out Tech News Weekly: https://twit.tv…

Fortnite removed from App Store and Google Play in an Epic anti-trust battle.On This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte, Amy Webb, Iain Thomson, and Mike Masnick are in a battle royale.For more on this story and many others, watch This Week in tech: https://twit.tv/twit/784

The FCC Chairman expects to get sued over Net Neutrality, why the European Parliament wants to break up Google, Amazon might book your next online travel, a new free ad-supported streaming video service from Amazon, Uber's bad PR forces changes at Lyft, Aereo calls it quits. new Chromebooks come…

The Tech Guy regular, Arizona Lou, calls in to ask how he can record phone calls on his smartphone. He's tried apps that require speakerphone, others that have internet-connectivity requirements, and some that flat-out don't work. Leo tells him to use Google Voice, a service with built-in call…

Denise Howell: Next up on This Week in Law, Rob Walker, Jim Gibson, and Sarah Pearson join me, Denise Howell. We will discuss how some lawyer's head clearly rolled when Samsung had not-so-smart privacy or terms of service with its smart TVs; we'll talk about purring cats being misidentified;…

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Almost any Android TV device can be upgraded too!Google released the new Chromecast with Google TV at its Fall hardware event last week and its the first device to be running the newly revamped Google TV interface that replaces Android TV. However, Googe hasn't pushed Google TV out to any other…

On This Week in Google 373, Jason Howell had a tip for easily scanning documents with your phone. The Google Drive app will scan documents by taking a photo of it with the phone's camera.After it snaps the photo, it automatically crops and straightens out the document. Then it saves it to your…

On This Week in Google 359, Leo Laporte had a tip for getting more out of OK Google -- the voice assistant from Google. One of the biggest problems with speech interfaces is remembering the syntax and what things it can actually do. To help with this, Kristijan Ristovski (aka Kitze) came up with a…

Leo Laporte's tip of the week on This Week in Google 360 is to use Google Keep to transcribe text from images. TechRepublic pointed this out in a recent article. If you have a picture in Google Keep, you can simply open the note, click on the three dot menu, and select the option to "grab image…

AI-generated, human-reviewed. On this week's episode of Tech News Weekly, Bloomberg antitrust reporter Leah Nylan joined Mikah Sargen to explain the real-world impact of the long-awaited ruling in the Google search monopoly trial. While the decision was welcomed by some investors, many…

AI written, human edited. The highly anticipated Google I/O developer conference brought the latest advancements in AI and a front-row view of the battle brewing between tech's biggest players. On this week's episode of This Week in Google, hosts Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis unpacked the event…

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How can crucially-important full-disk encryption be offered on inexpensive commodity hardware lacking any encryption acceleration?For the full episode, visit twit.tv/sn/701

Is Nest dead as a company? Yes. Is Nest dead as a platform? Sort of.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/508

What does Tim Cook have to say about user privacy and, in particular, Facebook's business model? Quite a bit as it turns out. Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, and Rene Ritchie discuss Cook's comments from the CPCD virtual conference.Full episode at twit.tv/mbw751

Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up.For this story and more, check out Tech News Weekly: http://twit.tv/tnw/172

In the latest round of a long and twisty fight over Java APIs, Oracle finally wins.Watch the full episode here:https://twit.tv/twig/450

Jason Howell pits two midrange beasts head-to-head with the Pixel 4a vs. the OnePlus Nord.Get the Pixel 4a: https://amzn.to/3mYIkV3Get the OnePlus Nord: https://amzn.to/2SkwLtzFind the right smartphone for you: https://my.lustre.ai/YXY4d

The White House launches the U.S. Digital Service, CBS has plans to make programming for streaming services, Microsoft re-launches Mac vs PC ads, Intel's new low-power Core M chips, and Microsoft announces a big event in September. 

Leo & Sarah celebrate Cinco de Mayo with history/language apps, Khan Academy for video learning, Hitman GO is a fun strategy game, Cook's All Time Best Recipes, Office for iPad now includes printing, & more!

Gina Trapani's tip this week is trivia game Topeka, a Chrome app for Android that features Material Design.

Twitter sues the United States Government, IBM's Watson continues to evolve, Facebook's Audience Network opened up yesterday, and more.

Netflix disappoints more people, Kindle thumbs nose at Apple, why Real names on G+ are like ties, and more.

Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Florence Ion and Michael Fisher discuss the new features announced for Android N and what the new name could be.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/267.

LinkedIn buys Lynda.com, Amazon sues 5-star review sites, an iPhone app for Android Wear is in the works, and more...

Self-driving cars hit the streets, get your PC ready for Occulus Rift, Pandora loses a key battle against the music industry, Samsung teases an Iron Man phone, and more...

Emojineering Part 1: Machine Learning for Emoji Trends.

Please join Leo Laporte, Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Iyaz Akhtar on Wednesday (July 24th) at 9AM for our live coverage of Google’s breakfast press conference with Sundar Pichai (Google’s Senior Vice President, overseeing Android, Chrome, and Google Apps).TWiT will be covering all of the breaking…