Dec 19th 2018
This Week in Google 487
You're Filling It Wrong
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Jeff Jarvis
Google Expands, Facebook Crashes
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mathew Ingram
- 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