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Oct 30th 2019
Intelligent Machines 532
Gravitas with Purple Hair
Twitter Bans Political ads, Google to Buy FitBit, Free Amazon Fresh
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Andrew Allemann
This Week's Stories
- Should Jason Howell delete all his old emails?
- Breaking News: Twitter bans political ads
- Google struggling with transparency issues
- Google will buy Fitbit: will this save WearOS?
- Moto 360 will relaunch in 2019
- Apple gains in wearables, loses in iPhones
- Advances in hearing aids
- Google earnings
- Amazon Fresh makes grocery delivery free for Prime Members
- Stacey explains Google's BERT “Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers”
- Carriers gang up to serve RCS
- Jason Howell's Pixel 4 Review
- Google brings .new to the web
- Andrew explains .new
- Ant's modeling pictures
- Google Maps the Kincade fire
- Google finally kills flash
- Facebook News tab includes Breitbart
- Netflix tests variable speed
- Hellvetica is the evilest font
Picks of the Week
- Stacey's Thing: Twinkly lights
- Ant's Inspirations: Breast Cancer Awareness Month and North Carolina Central University's Nothing But the Arts
- Jeff's Numbers: The Internet at 50, How much time @Jack spends on Twitter, and The Precautionary Principle
- Jason's Tool: Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.
Links
- Google is reportedly trying to buy Fitbit
- The Moto 360 is being re-released for 2019 w/ new internals, familiar design
- How Google buying Fitbit could be a win-win, even for Fitbit device owners
- Alphabet reports Q3 revenue of $40.5B, up 20% YoY, operating income of $9.2B
- Google says that by the end of this year it will stop indexing and ranking Flash content in its search engine
- Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others
- Google mapping, constantly updating maps of California fires
- Google grappling with internal trust issues, Pichai concedes in video
- BERT improves search
- Netflix testing variable playback speed on Android
- Read the Letter Facebook Employees Sent to Mark Zuckerberg About Political Ads
- FB's news tab announcement with WSJ head
- Breitbart inclusion in FB news tab draws controversy & defense from Instagram head
- Amazon axes $14.99 Amazon Fresh fee, making grocery delivery free for Prime members to boost use
- THIS JUST IN: Twitter to ban political advertising
- Google will replace Home devices bricked due to latest firmware update
- Revamped Google Home app rolling out
- Google launches TensorBoard.dev and TensorFlow Enterprise
- SiriusXM is coming to Google Assistant smart speakers and displays
- YouTube Music rolling out desktop PWA with keyboard shortcuts
- Google Photos adds whimsical Halloween Easter Egg
- Breakthrough in fast-charging for electric cars
- Helvetica’s evil twin, Hellvetica, will haunt your nightmares
- Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier
- Precaution about the precautionary principle
- Fifty
- Nothing But The Arts
- BCAM
- Twinkly