This Week in Google 490

• Google Assistant is everywhere at CES 2019, including an amusement park ride.
• Facebook opens its political ads archive, showing who is targeting you and how much they spent.
• Don't blame millennials: Fake news is spread by boomers.
• The Internet Archive tries to save Brazil's internet.
• German politicians hacked - lone hacker confesses.
• How can you get free samples from Amazon?
• Amazon becomes the most valuable company in the world just in time for the Bezoses to divorce.
• It is false and defamatory to say that Julian Assange is easily offended.
• Plus: Fortnite, fountain pens, and not-so-naughty limericks.

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Number: Google moves into a West LA mall.
• Mathew's Stuff: Join the Internet Archive Team.
• Leo's Picks: Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse, The State of the World 2019, Pepsi robots, and AT&T's fake 5G.

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.

Links

• Google takes geeks for a ride at CES
• Many Assistant announcements at CES
• Google Assistant will soon be on a billion devices, and feature phones are next - The Verge
• Google Assistant support on SmartCooker
• Everything Google Assistant at CES: new features, new devices, and a Trojan horse - The Verge
• Hey Google, what's new with the Assistant at CES this year?
• Android Messages’ automatic spam protection has started rolling out
• Google drawings can be embedded in Docs
• Use Facebook's political ad transparency archive to see Warren's campaign
• Study finds white men 65+ share most fake news
• The kids are alright. Grandpa’s the problem.
• Backing up Brazil’s internet so Bolsonaro can’t censor it
• A Beginner’s Guide to IPFS
• Amazon becomes most valuable US company for first time - CNET
• Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announce they are divorcing after 25 years of marriage
• Amazon is using your data to send you free samples
• Global Right to be Forgotten fight reaches highest European court
• Google buys expert community and ‘answer engine’ Superpod for $60 million
• Android Q will reportedly have system-wide dark mode - CNET
• Kohler's $7k toilet with Alexa
• Autonomous Robot Hit and ‘Killed’ by Self-Driving Tesla
• Hackers Dump Data on Merkel, Politicians in Giant German Leak - Bloomberg
• 20-year-old arrested and confesses
• DNA-testing companies like 23andMe sell your data. How to delete it. - Business Insider
• Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Scans Six Years Before a Diagnosis | UC San Francisco
• Stop scaremongering about kids spending time on their phones
• Netflix released over 1,500 hours of original series and movies in 2018 — Quartz
• Fortnite developer Tim Sweeney made $7 billion this year — Quartz
• The Complete List of 140 Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks – Emma Best
• Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic After Blockchain History Rewrites - CoinDesk
• The Million Dollar Homepage
• Ling's Cars
• Google takes over mall for offices in LA
• Cramer says there's still time to buy FAANG (except the N)
• Internet Archive Team
• Super blood wolf moon eclipse coming soon: What does it all mean?
• The WELL: State of the World 2019
• PepsiCo is rolling out a fleet of robots to bring snacks to college students - The Verge
• AT&T decides 4G is now “5G,” starts issuing icon-changing software updates | Ars Technica