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This Week's Stories

•  Whatever happened to Patch?
•  Amazon announces Echo in everything from earbuds to glasses to ovens
•  Do we trust Amazon?
•  Pixelbook Go looks underwhelming
•  Quantum Supremacy Achieved
•  Google wins the right to be forgotten case
•  Chrome update crashes Avid on Macs
•  ChromeOS 77 is here
•  Facebook Horizon will go nowhere
•  Facebook buys CTRL Labs
•  Facebook says politicians can say anything
•  Pop-up criminals busted
•  ImageNet Roulette
•  The Texas Instruments graphing calculator monopoly

Picks of the Week

•  Leo's Tool: Sonos Move
•  Jeff's Number: FAANG stocks lost $58b in value after Trump smashed technology
•  Ant's Thing: Coffee house back home with a message
•  Kevin's Stuff: YouTube series. On Python. From... MICROSOFT?!?

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Links

• Exclusive: Google’s next laptop is ‘Pixelbook Go’ w/ 13.3-inch 4K display
• Thoughts on the Pixelbook Go leaks
• Google may have just ushered in an era of ‘quantum supremacy’
• Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ!
• What Quantum Supremacy Means for Bitcoin
• Google wins landmark right to be forgotten case - BBC News
• Google takes blame for unbootable Macs
• War over EU copyright directive begins as Google refuses to pay French publishers
• Gingras' post on this
• Google releases trove of deepfakes to help researchers
• Facebook unveils Horizon, a VR massive multiplayer world coming in 2020, and will shut down existing VR experiences Facebook Spa
• Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs, which develops non-invasive neural interfaces for computing, like a bracelet; sources: size of de
• Facebook will not label or remove politicians' rule-breaking posts
• Everything we care about from the Alexa event
• Alexa can mimic celebrities, starting with Samuel L. Jackson
• Amazon Sidewalk is a wireless protocol that can reach up to a mile away
• Alexa Twerking Bear
• Disney's Bob Iger says he pulled the plug on Disney buying Twitter at the last minute because the nastiness on the platform is "
• Google Play Pass: Enjoy apps and games without ads or in-app purchases
• Exclusive: New Google Nest Wifi adds an Assistant speaker - 9to5Google
• Google is bringing Assistant to people without internet access
• Google promotes synonyms in search
• WARP is here (sorry it took so long)
• ‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You? - The New York Times
• WeWork's Adam Neumann quits as chief executive
• Boston Dynamics’ Spot is leaving the laboratory
• Boston Dynamics’ Atlas can now do an impressive gymnastics routine
• Sonos Move
• FAANG stocks lost $58b in value after Trump smashed technology
• Coffee house back home with a message
• YouTube series. On Python. From... MICROSOFT?!?