This Week in Google 477

• Kevin Tofel has the Pixel 3 XL, and gives us his first impressions. #1: Best. Photos. Ever.
• Pixel Slate: should you dump your laptop and get this?
• Google Home Hub: simplifying the smart home.
• Facebook Portal: now Facebook has a camera that can follow your every move.
• Everything we now know about Bloomberg's Chinese spy chip story
• Google+ is dead. Could anything have saved it?
• Amazon kills bonuses, discriminates against women.
• Essential's next act: a phone that send AI-written texts for you.
• Netflix buys its own studio.
• The heroes archiving the internet.

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Number: The illegal food economy on Facebook
• Kevin's Stuff: Anki Vector Robot
• Stacey's Things: Suggestic precision eating app and Party Down on Starz

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Links

• Made by Google on Twitter: "So you think you know… Tune in tomorrow to see for yourself. https://t.co/4zTwRXcn1x #madebygoogle…
• Here's everything Google revealed at its Pixel 3 event
• Google Photos update makes an already smart app even smarter
• Selfie portrait mode on the 3 XL
• Hands-on with Google's Pixel Slate: the $200 keyboard is a must-have, making it $800+ all-in
• First look at the Pixel Slate keyboard
• Pixel Slate release date: November 22?
• Google introduces the new Home Hub with display
• Google Home Hub is all about simplifying the smart home experience
• Facebook debuts video chat devices for home: the $199 Portal with a 10" screen and $349 Portal+ with a 15.6" swiveling screen
• The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies - Bloomberg
• Apple denies claim China slipped spy chips into its iCloud server hardware
• New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
• Yossi Appleboum Disagrees with How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro
• Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It? — Krebs on Security
• Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
• Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+
• Making your connected home even smarter with Google Home and Nest
• More control at your fingertips with the new Google Home app
• Amazon is eliminating monthly bonuses and stock awards for US warehouse workers after raising wage to $15/hour
• Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women | Reuters
• Android Creator Is Said to Build AI Phone That Texts for You - Bloomberg
• This 20-Year-Old Is Archiving Thousands of Flash Banner Ads From the Early 2000s
• Netflix, Already a Studio in All But Name, Is Buying a Studio - Bloomberg
• The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists” | Ars Technica
• Underground food economy on Facebook
• Anki Vector Robot
• Anki Vector Robot on YouTube