Nov 7th 2018
This Week in Google 481
Stoned on Cheese
Foldable Phone, Online Civility
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
- The Samsung Developers Conference Keynote features a foldable phone, SmartThings IoT, and Bixby innovations.
- Android will support foldable phones.
- Google employees stage a walkout over sexual harassment
- Tim Berners-Lee's Contract for the Web
- How to encourage civility online
- YouTube Content ID
- Facebook and "White Genocide"
- Young people are deleting Facebook in droves
- Facebook's holiday pop-up store
- Everybody gets free Amazon shipping
- Amazon's new HQ2(s)
- 8 new Chromebook features
- Google Home Hub teams up with Sephora
- Ajit Pai's FCC is hopping mad about robocalls
Picks of the Week
- Jeff's Number: Black Friday home tech deals
- Stacey's Thing: Extinct cables, Alexa Christmas Lights
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Links
- This is Samsung’s foldable smartphone
- Samsung launches SmartThings dev tools, doubles number of partners
- Samsung goes all in on its Bixby digital assistant
- Google says Android will natively support foldable devices
- Google Workers Reject Silicon Valley Individualism in Walkout
- Google walkout organizers say 20,000+ participated and that Sundar Pichai will meet with his leadership team on Monday to review
- Google & FB join Tim Berners Lee's contract for the web
- Spaceship Media
- YouTube paid $3 billion to copyright owners through Content ID
- Facebook Allowed Advertisers to Target Users Interested in “White Genocide” — Even in Wake of Pittsburgh Massacre
- Facebook exodus: 44 percent of American users ages 18-29 have deleted app
- Facebook launches retail pop-up stores ahead of holiday season
- Amazon is giving everyone free shipping on everything for the holidays
- Multiple Headquarters Move Amazon Closer to Its Goal: Everything Company
- 8 noteworthy new features coming to Chromebooks this month | Computerworld
- Step into the Sights of Sound with Pixel 3
- U.S. regulator demands companies take action to halt 'robocalls'
- Flickr will end 1TB of free storage and limit free users to 1,000 photos - The Verge
- Extinct cables
- Black friday home tech deals
- Alexa, Turn on Christmas