This Week in Google 328

Tips for dealing with racist uncle this Thanksgiving, Google Star Wars easter egg, LA Times buyout list, Google builds a Star Trek Communicator, Google will text message you holiday deals, LG cancels the Urbane Watch LTE, and more!

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Links

• Tips for Dealing With Fake 'Racist Uncle' Think Pieces This Thanksgiving Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/t
• Buyout list at LA Times 'makes you want to cry'
• Google wants to stop being just an ad company by 2020
• Lessons Learned From a Gathering of Hacks and Geeks: Progress is Possible
• Google Launches Mortgage Shopping Tool In California, More States Coming Soon
• Google built (and then canceled) a “Star Trek Communicator” prototype
• Forget Turducken. It’s Piecaken Time.
• Google Wants To Text Message You With Holiday Shopping Deals
• Google To Donate Up To $1 Million Toward Education In Android Pay Charity Campaign
• LG Cancels The Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE Indefinitely Because Of Unspecified, Complex "Hardware Issue"
• YouTube to Pay Fees for Some Video Makers to Fight Takedowns
• Google Received More Than 65 Million URL Takedown Requests In The Past Month
• Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off When His New Baby Arrives
• 'Phuc Dat Bich': man says he created name hoax to fool media and Facebook
• Security Manual Reveals the OPSEC Advice ISIS Gives Recruits
• Researchers Say Google's Nest Cam Never Turns Off
• Google Search Now Surfaces App-Only Content, Streams Apps From The Cloud When Not Installed On Your Phone
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• Marty Baron welcomes Jeff Bezos to Twitter
• To Einstein’s general theory of relativity, a love letter on its 100th birthday