Jun 12th 2019
This Week in Google 512
That's a Lot of Baldur's Gate
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Jeff Jarvis
Mary Meeker, Stadia, Pixel 4 Leak
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Kevin Tofel
This Week's Stories
- Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends Report
- Who is Stadia for? Console Gamers.
- New York Times is WRONG about Google News
- Pixel 4 Leaked - by Google!
- Google Bought 270 Companies Between 2001 and 2019
- Should Sprint and T-Mobile be Allowed to Merge?
- Half a Million Master Music Recordings Burned in 2008
- RIP Maker Faire
- Have I Been Pwnd: For Sale
- Fortnite Buys Houseparty
- Stop using ReCAPTCHA!
- Chrome vs Ad Blockers
Tips and Picks
- Leo's Tools: Better Place Forests, The Infinity Burial Suit
- Jeff's Number: Facebook Watch claims 140m daily users
- Kevin's Tip: Start using authentication apps in lieu of text message codes!
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Links
- Google’s Stadia game service is officially coming November: Everything you need to know
- Stadia Founder's Edition
- Google Made $4.7 Billion From the News Industry in 2018, Study Says - The New York Times
- Jarvis response: News Publishers Go to War With the Internet -- and We All Lose
- That “$4.7B” number for how much money Google makes off news industry? Imaginary
- Google tweets pics of the Pixel 4
- Google bought 270 companies since 2001, Facebook bought 92 since 2007
- The Google Assistant is now available in Waze
- 100 percent renewable energy, for the second year in a row
- Google testing taxi safety feature for Maps, telling you if cabbie veers off route
- It's the end of the road for Trips
- Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive
- So long Pixel Slate Celeron, we barely knew you
- Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends report
- jarvis favorite: #22
- Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet - Vox
- Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff | TechCrunch
- You (probably) don’t need ReCAPTCHA | kevv.net
- Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty | TechCrunch
- Sprint and T-Mobile Merger Faces New Hurdle With Lawsuit by States - The New York Times
- For Sale: Have I Been Pwned
- The Day the Music Burned - The New York Times
- Better Place Forests
- The Infinity Burial Suit
- Facebook Watch claims 140m daily users
- Android phones can be used as 2FA keys for iOS devices