Jun 6th 2018
This Week in Google 460
A Confusing Number of People
Privacy Spats and Flying Cars
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- Microsoft Buys GitHub, users promptly freak out
- Apple Screen Time vs Google Digital Wellbeing
- Google cancels Pentagon drone program after protests
- Larry Page's flying car takes off
- Google's Project Oasis puts the world's weather on your coffee table
- Apple and Facebook's privacy spat
- WhatsApp founders and Facebook's privacy spat
- Facebook still wants your nude pictures
Tips and Picks
- Stacey's Thing: Awair Glow
- Jeff's Number: Sundar is just Sundar
- Leo's Tool: Google Lens standalone app
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Links
- Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion | Stories
- GitHub also spoke with Google.
- The Cost of Developers – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- How do Apple’s Screen Time and Google Digital Wellbeing stack up?
- Google Plans Not to Renew Its Contract for Project Maven, a Controversial Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program
- Related: Michael Bloomberg criticizes the decision, saying Google abandoned national security
- Uganda imposes a social media tax to prevent 'gossip'
- Flying car backed by Larry Page debuts
- Google made an AI-backed terrarium that shows weather conditions around the world
- Apple’s New Features Take Aim at Facebook
- Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends - The New York Times
- The Beam is Sonos’ ambitious attempt to win the living room - The Verge
- Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
- Amazon’s Echo Look fashion camera is now available to everyone in the US
- Tesla has installed a truly huge amount of energy storage
- Announcing NuzzelRank
- Awair Glow