This Week in Google 466

• AI takes to the cloud at Google Cloud Next 2018
• Despite Facebook's inability to deal with controversy, Facebook stock is fine. Oh wait, no - they just reported disappointing earnings and now it's down 20 percent.
• Google earnings: doing peachy, despite that pesky $5 billion fine.
• Google employees are unphishable, and now you can be, too. But cover your webcam just in case.
• Orrin Hatch still isn't dead; Abe Vigoda still is.

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Pick: GDPR at a German Bakery
• Kevin's Picks: IndieWeb.org, Kill Sticky, and Contrast Widget

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• Sundar appears at Cloud Next: "We're at an inflection point."
• Google now offers businesses a stand-alone version of Google Drive, apart from G Suite, that costs $8 per month per active user
• G Suite adds Grammar Suggestions in Google Docs, voice commands to Hangouts Meet hardware customers, and its Smart Reply feature
• Google to install AI in call centers. (who knew they had call centers?)
• Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies?
• TensorFlow for Poets
• Why you need to improve your training data, and how to do it
• Finding the Line
• Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of "exce
• Jarvis post on FB & Infowars: Finding the line
• Facebook could recognize Holocaust denialism as hate speech and ban it on those grounds, but trying to censor every falsehood sh
• Facebook misses analyst predictions
• Chrome now marks all unencrypted web sites as ‘not secure’
• Never SSL
• Browsh
• Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $32.7B, up 26% YoY, and net income of $3.2B including EU fine; excluding the fine, net income was
• Alphabet's Other Bets, which now includes Loon, Wing projects alongside Waymo, Verily, and others, had Q2 revenue of $145M with
• The Story Behind Google's Secret Offer to Settle Android Probe
• Facebook’s moves to restrict its API mean that users can no longer use third party apps like Bridgy to create posts.
• Twitter limits Tweets & Retweets (combined): 300 per 3 hours
• 24 people have now been sentenced in India-based phone-scam case | Ars Technica
• Google says none of its 85,000+ employees have been successfully phished since early 2017, when it required use of physical Secu
• RELATED: Google to sell its Titan security key
• Sextortion Scam Uses Recipient’s Hacked Passwords
• Waymo Teams Up With Walmart, Avis and Others for Short Driverless Rides
• Forbes suggested Amazon should replace libraries, and people aren’t having it
• Forbes deleted an op-ed arguing that Amazon should replace libraries
• Google says Hatch is dead. He disagrees
• Related: People and Abe Vigoda
• Is Abe Vigoda Dead?
• Susan Fowler Rigetti, the former Uber engineer who blew the whistle on sexual harassment at the company, has joined the NYT as t
• We need a new model for tech journalism - Columbia Journalism Review
• Mike's List of Chrome Extensions — Mike Elgan
• GDPR in a German bakery
• IndieWeb
• Kill Sticky
• contrast widget