Oct 19th 2016
This Week in Google 375
The InterNyet
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Stacey Higginbotham
Google Unplugged, Yahoo earnings, Samsung blows up GTA.
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Kevin Marks
Google Pixels are shipping - will people who ordered them through Verizon get them sooner? Google makes a deal to put CBS on its upcoming Unplugged TV service, with more deals on the way. Disney and Salesforce bowed out of Twitter sale due to troll problems, but Twitter soldiers on with an election night deal with BuzzFeed. Samsung makes YouTube take down a video of a Note 7 exploding - in Grand Theft Auto V.
- Is Peter Thiel's $1.25 millon donation to Trump a problem? Mark Zuckerberg doesn't think so, but Stacey disagrees. Kevin Marks thinks this is just the tip of the iceberg for Thiel's problems.
- Kevin Marks shows off the Soviet Internet that almost was.
- Google's new fact check feature is cool, but is it too late for this election?
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Links
- Apple Invites Media to 'Hello Again' October 27th Mac-Centric Event
- Sources: Google reaches deal with CBS to carry network on Unplugged web TV service on YouTube, to debut early 2017
- Google News introduces fact check feature – just in time for US election
- Trump vs Clinton: Alexa will tell you who won the debate (after it ends)
- Hampton Creek, Maker of Just Mayo, Is Said to Be Under Inquiry
- Study: Bots accounted for a third of all pro-Trump Twitter activity during the debate
- Twitter trolls caused Salesforce to walk away from deal - Business Insider
- Disney Dropped Twitter Pursuit Partly Over Image - Bloomberg
- Verizon Pixel Phones Appear To Already Be Shipping
- Pixel orders are starting to ship from the Google Store
- Google Pixel: the Android iPhone you've been waiting for
- Yahoo Dodges Questions On Hacking, Verizon Deal By Canceling Earnings Call
- After Yahoo data breach, Verizon hints that it could pull out of $4.83B deal
- Yahoo earnings beat on cost cuts, but gives no explanation on data breach impact on Verizon deal
- Zuckerberg defends Thiel as diversity
- Samsung made YouTube remove video of GTA mod that turns Note 7 into a bomb
- Samsung is setting up Note7 exchange booths at high traffic terminals in select airports around the world
- Twitter teams up with Buzzfeed to stream a live election night broadcast
- Twitter suitors vanish as Salesforce rules out bid
- Why Twitter Actually Is a Media Company
- Twitter wants more TV producers and YouTube stars livestreaming on Periscope
- Cops Have a Database of 117M Faces. You’re Probably in It
- ACLU unearths evidence that Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter supplied data to a shady startup
- The CIA is reportedly preparing for a major cyber attack against Russia
- Russian Hacker, Wanted by F.B.I., Is Arrested in Prague, Czechs Say
- Ecuador says it cut Julian Assange’s internet access to prevent interference with the election
- Elon Musk says Tesla will announce ‘Model 3 part 2’ at 8PM ET
- Leo Beranek, Engineer Involved in Internet Precursor, Dies at 102 - The New York Times
- The Soviet InterNyet
- Video game voice actors will strike on October 21st
- Remembering David Bunnell (1947-2016), The Maverick Who Helped Invent Tech Media
- How the Web Became Unreadable (by Kevin Marks)
- IndieWeb
- Philips Hue lights now have greener greens
- Stacey's Halloween Lights