Intelligent Machines 487

•  Google takes Manhattan
•  Almost 50% of Google's workers are temps, contractors, or vendors.
•  Facebook vs New York Times
•  Harassment on Twitter
•  Jack Dorsey's beard shavings, Azalia Banks, and ISIS
•  A very Google holiday season
•  RIP Oath • Tesla fart app
•  Peter Jackson restores WWI footage

Picks of the Week

•  Leo's Tool: NexJack DeX Station
•  Jeff's Number: Chartbeat's 2018 Most Engaged Stories

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Links

• Google Details Major New York Expansion - WSJ
• Google Hudson Square: our expanded New York campus
• Google posts AI enforcement policy
• Document reveals that 50% of Google's workforce are temps, vendors, and contractors.
• Internal docs show Facebook gave ~150 companies access to more user data than disclosed
• Let’s Clear Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners
• Every 30 seconds, a female journalist or politician is harassed on Twitter
• Brits tell NY Times to sod off
• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent beard shavings to Azealia Banks so she could make an amulet to protect him from ISIS
• NPR's podcast measurement technology RAD has sparked debate within the industry
• Android Developers Blog: In reviews we trust — Making Google Play ratings and reviews more trustworthy
• Helping families develop healthy digital habits with Chromebooks
• Google’s Music Transformer can generate piano melodies that don’t sound half bad
• Google is sending free socks to some Local Guides
• G Suite Updates Blog: Share files more easily with non-Google accounts in Drive Beta
• You can now ask Google Assistant for flight delay predictions
• Holidays at Google
• Macaulay Culkin is Home Alone again in this fantastic Google Assistant ad
• Related: how home alone pranks would kill you
• Test your knowledge of the year’s top trends with Game of the Year
• Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure
• Introducing Verizon Media Group
• An Old-School Phone Phreak Has Been Making NYC Wifi Kiosks Play Creepy Music
• France to tax tech giants from 2019 as EU fails to act | News | DW | 17.12.2018
• Silent but deadly: Tesla unveils new 'fart app' - Roadshow
• Woman tries to fill Tesla with gas (video with sound up)
• Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content
• Peter Jackson beyond colorizing old video: amazing
• These faces show how far AI image generation has advanced in just four years
• Chartbeat 2018 most engaged stories