Intelligent Machines 394

No more Pixel laptops. Google's confusing Android Messages strategy hinges on RCS. Uber sued by Waymo and women, and yelled at by its own drivers. Amazon S3 outage. Is posting on Facebook a Constitutional right? YouTube's streaming TV service. Boston Dynamics' Handle robot, robot-made pizza, and Pizza Hut-ordering shoes.

• Stacey's Thing: Bond IR appliance controller
• Jeff's Number: YouTube streams more than 1 billion hours of video every day
• Leo's Pick: Bill Gates' David S. Pumpkins-esqu Reddit AMA announcement

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Links

• Google calls time on the Pixel laptop
• Tim Berners-Lee Endorses DRM In HTML5, Offers Depressingly Weak Defense Of His Decision
• Techdirt Survival Fund
• MWC 2017: Google Assistant Expands Beyond Pixel to New Android Smartphones
• Google rebrands Messenger as Android Messages in a move toward a universal texting app
• Google unveiling Meet, Hangouts for biz
• The day Amazon S3 storage stood still
• LG unveils the G6, swapping modularity for new screen dimensions and waterproofing
• Apple’s Next iPhone Will Have a Curved Screen - WSJ
• Raden Suitcase
• Complicated. Weird. Beautiful! The secret Google project to put an aquarium full of tiny, wiggly water bears inside your phone
• Alphabet's Waymo sues Uber for allegedly stealing self-driving car secrets
• Tens of thousands of Chromebooks fail because of Symantec BlueCoat problem
• Famous patent “troll’s” lawsuit against Google booted out of East Texas
• Delivering RCS messaging to Android users worldwide
• Google at MWC: Daydream trees, cherry blossom, and nougat smoothies
• People Are Tricking Facebook By Copy And Pasting, Not Sharing
• YouTube announces its own streaming TV service
• Is posting on Facebook a Constitutional right?
• Immigrant detained after press conference
• Norwegian news site requires quiz before commenting
• Boston Dynamics’ Handle robot dominates parkour on wheels in new footage
• Robot-made pizza in Mountain View
• Video of the pizza robot
• Da Vinci Surgery Robot
• Pizza Hut's smart shoes will order a pie for you
• Uber Is Doomed - rider fares cover roughly 40 percent of a ride, the remainder is subsidized by venture capitalists
• ‘I must fundamentally change and grow up’: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s big apology
• Uber’s SVP of engineering is out after he did not disclose he left Google in a dispute over a sexual harassment allegation - Rec
• Border agents go all Monty Python on visa-holding software engineer
• BOND
• 37 French news organisations launched “CrossCheck” on Tuesday, a fact-checking service intended to debunk the “fake news"
• Google claims YouTube is 10x as popular as Netflix or Facebook video, and approaching TV
• Life 4.28b years old
• Bill Gates on Twitter: "I’m on @reddit right now if you want to ask me anything"