This Week in Google 384

What the world searched for in 2016, Mark Zuckerberg's AI home assistant sounds like Morgan Freeman, fake news, Uber loses $3 billion, Tom Wheeler quits the FCC, Waymo minivans.

• Stacey's Thing: Canary Flex
• Jeff's Number: $250 million home for tech in NYC
• Leo's Tool: Netgear Orbi

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Links

• The best Christmas 2016 adverts
• Alphabet’s self-driving car subsidiary Waymo gives first glimpse of autonomous minivans
• Ikea Really Wants Teenagers to Stop Secretly Sleeping in its Stores
• Uber losses expected to hit $3 billion in 2016 despite revenue growth
• Your Phone Is Listening—Literally Listening—to Your TV
• Google Home’s Secret Weakness: the Word ‘Google
• At Home With Mark Zuckerberg And Jarvis, The AI Assistant He Built For His Family
• Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s Morgan Freeman-voiced Jarvis AI in action
• 2016: The year Facebook became the bad guy
• Tim Wu on Triangulation
• The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz
• Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why You Doubt Your Strengths
• Related: Bill asks Mark for a Jarvis. Everybody wants a Jarvis.
• Do we want to talk about FB's fake news changes? (Came out last Thursday)
• Google's Year in Search 2016 - Google Trends
• No, tonight won't be the darkest night in 500 years
• YouTube star documents getting kicked off Delta flight, allegedly for speaking Arabic
• Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC
• Remaining FCC Commissioners Promise to Gut Net Neutrality 'As Soon As Possible'
• Not OK Google: Tree-loving family turns down Page and pals' $7m
• German law would fine social media sites “publishing” fake news
• The True Story Behind The Biggest Fake News Hit Of The Election - BuzzFeed News
• Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too
• Yahoo shares tumble as investors fear Verizon acquisition trouble
• Bana Alabed, Aleppo's tweeting girl, meets Turkey's President Erdogan
• Big Tech Has the Supply Chain Blues
• The Great A.I. Awakening
• The best tech reporting of 2016
• Canary Flex
• $250m home for tech in NYC!
• Jerry Lewis tortures reporter for 7 minutes