Intelligent Machines 262

Google Fiber forces Comcast to boost speeds in KC, collaborative social blocking on social networks, Google opens Classroom for teachers, and more!

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• Transcripts: This Week in Google 262 (Transcript)

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• Google invests in $300m underwater internet cable system to Japan
• Google Fiber forces Comcast, TWC to boost speeds in KC
• How collaborative social blocking could bring sanity to social networks
• OnePlus asks women to participate in degrading contest to get a smartphone
• Satellite images can now double res; beware bald spots
• Google now rejects scam email that tricks you using non-Latin characters
• Google Play Music quietly reintroduces yearly 4 device de-authorization limit
• Cast your Google+ Stream with the latest update
• Twitter admits that as many as 23 million of its active users are actually bots - Quartz
• The philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard mashed with the tweets and observations of Kim Kardashian.
• Twitch implements YouTube-like system for blocking copyrighted audio
• Jezebel starts open revolt against Gawker parent to get attention for terrible trolling gif problem
• Black hatters say they can infect Nest thermostats
• The IBM PC: Was it really only 33 years ago?
• 10 years after Google IPO: up 17x
• Vellum is a simple reading list for the links your friends are currently sharing in your Twitter feed.