This Week in Google 510

This Week's Stories

•  Google's White Collar Sweatshop
•  Killing CDA 230 Would Kill the Internet
•  Musk's Starlink Satellites Could Kill Space Exploration
•  The US vs Huawei: This is How the US Economy Crashes
•  Google's Cold Fusion Experiment Fizzles
•  YouTube Blocks Microsoft Edge
•  Google Duplex is Made of People
•  Consumer Reports: Tesla's Self-Driving Cars Aren't.
•  Neal Stephenson thinks Social Media is a "Doomsday Machine"
•  How to Beat the Facebook Algorithm
•  A Quantum Random Number Generator
•  Jeff Jarvis Designs the Facebook Oversight Committee
•  The French Might have the Right Idea on How to Regulate Facebook
•  Should Facebook Take Down Drunk Pelosi?
•  Finland vs Fake News
•  Elizabeth Warren's Big Billboard
•  Zuck Can No Longer Visit Canada
•  Amazon Shareholders love Facial Recognition
•  Amazon to Kill off Small Business... on Amazon
•  Podcasts are a Billion Dollar Business in China
•  Pole Dancing Rats on the NY Subway

Picks of the Week

•  Leo's Tools: nextdns and the Million Pound Virus-laden Laptop
•  Jeff's Number: Trump's Tweets Drop to 0.16% Potency
•  Mathew's Stuff: Mona Lisa AI and Bill Hader Al Pacino Deep fake

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

Links

• Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time Employees - The New York Times
• Google’s Duplex Uses A.I. to Mimic Humans (Sometimes) - The New York Times
• Googles cold fusion fizzles
• Neal Stephenson Says Social Media Is Close To A 'Doomsday Machine' - Slashdot
• How I Tried to Defy the Facebook Algorithm
• Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Served a Summons If He Sets Foot In Canada
• Why Facebook is right not to take down Pelosi video
• Huawei: US blacklist will harm billions of consumers.
• Huawei’s US ban: A look at the hardware (and software) supply problems | Ars Technica
• Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered With Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics
• Huawei says its mobile OS won't actually launch in June
• Huawei will consume Apple's lost Chinese smartphone market share, says JP Morgan
• Chinese-Made Drones Spark Concerns And Warnings From U.S. Government : NPR
• Sources: Amazon will stop ordering from thousands of small suppliers in the next few months
• Amazon reportedly prepares purge of small suppliers
• At Amazon, facial recognition ban won just 2% of shareholder vote
• What’s for dinner? Order it with Google
• The YouTube Gaming app is shutting down this week
• Google Assistant gets NYC subway arrival times ahead of MTA Google Pay support
• Investing in the Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – Andreessen Horowitz
• Today in science: Einstein’s triumph
• Weatherman Snaps On Live TV When Viewers Complain About A Tornado Warning Interrupting 'The Bachelorette'
• Tesla's Updated Navigate on Autopilot Requires Significant Driver Intervention
• True random number generator
• Slow trump
• Finland against fake news
• Teaching finns small talk
• Elizabeth Warren puts a giant tech breakup billboard in San Francisco’s face
• It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
• Watch A Rat Practice Its Impressive Pole Dancing Routine On The Subway
• The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones
• nextdns
• Is this really art?
• Trump's tweets lose potency
• Jarvis on MSNBC on the above
• Zero pay for Pichai
• Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life | TechCrunch
• Deepfake of Bill Hader Morphing Into Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger While Impersonating Them