Mar 15th 2017
This Week in Google 396
Mechanical Turking
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Stacey Higginbotham
SXSW, Yahoo Hackers, & IoT
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Danny Sullivan
South By Southwest news from Austin local Stacey Higginbotham. 100 announcements from Google Cloud Next. Can Google fix its "one true answer" problem? U.S. charges 4 Russians with Yahoo Hack. The best iPhone case ever.
- Danny's Article: Your guide to using Google Assistant and the Google search app on Android & iPhone
- Stacey's Thing: Lutron LZL-4B-WH-L01 Connected Bulb Remote
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Links
- SXSW Live
- Google and Levi's connected smart jacket will come out this fall and costs around $350 (Nick Statt/The Verge)
- SXSW knocked out one of Austin’s Uber and Lyft replacements for hours last night
- 100 announcements (!) from Google Cloud Next '17
- Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
- Google’s reCAPTCHA turns “invisible,” will separate bots from people without challenges | Ars Technica
- Google gets go-ahead to break ground on new, futuristic HQ - CNET
- U.S. Plans to Charge Four People Over Yahoo Hacking
- On February 1, Verizon sought a $925M discount on Yahoo purchase, before settling for a $350M price cut
- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to Get $23 Million Golden Parachute
- Yahoo’s New Male CEO Will Make Double Marissa Mayer’s Salary
- This case is literally an entire Android phone that you attach to your iPhone
- HTC teases “unexpected surprise” on March 20, perhaps the HTC 11
- Mark Zuckerberg Announces Creation of Female User
- Facebook Bans Use of User Data for Surveillance
- Google’s “One True Answer” problem — when featured snippets go bad
- Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search
- Study reveals whopping 48M Twitter accounts are actually bots
- Elon Musk: I can fix South Australia power network in 100 days or it's free
- Tesla prepares for Model 3, will raise $1.15B in stock offering, Musk to buy $25M
- Your guide to using Google Assistant and the Google search app on Android & iPhone
- Lutron ZigBee dimmer
- Lutron CW-1-WH 1-Gang Claro Wall Plate
- Lutron LZL-4B-WH-L01 Connected Bulb Remote