Nov 20th 2019
This Week in Google 535
Nihilistic Epistemology for Kids
Pixel 4 review, Youtube scares content creators, and TWiT.community is the future of social media
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mathew Ingram
This Week's Stories:
- Leo and Ant's Pixel 4 review: it's a decent phone, why does everybody hate it?
- The love/hate pendulum swings for tech
- PayPal Buys Honey for $4 Billion
- TWiT.community and Jimmy Wales' "Facebook Killer" are the future of social media
- Tik Tok CEO says China isn't controlling him
- Stadia launch underwhelms
- Google's Project Nightingale stirs our privacy fears
- Google cuts Friday meetings
- YouTube creators: the FTC is coming to get you!
Picks of the Week:
- Jeff's Number: Google's Black Friday Sale
- Ant's Good Thing: Lawton Swann's Clemson Sports Talk Podcast
- Mathew's Stuff: Greedo shouted Maclunkey!
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Links
- Online Cesspool Got You Down? You Can Clean It Up, For a Price - The New York Times
- Jimmy Wales starts a social network
- Google Stadia review: the best of cloud gaming is still just a beta
- Google’s health-care project with NIH was scuttled over data privacy concerns - The Washington Post
- The problem with Google’s health care ambitions is that no one knows where they end
- How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results - WSJ
- Google cuts back all-hands meetings
- Google wants to be your new bank
- YouTube’s new kids’ content system has creators scrambling - The Verge
- Protecting Children’s Privacy Under COPPA: A Survey on Compliance
- FTC Press Conference on Settlement With Google / YouTube
- Google launches Google Earth tools that let users create and present virtual tours, with attached text, images, and videos, for
- Google search will now give you feedback on your pronunciation - The Verge
- Google is putting an algorithmic audio news feed on its Assistant
- Google combining classic Hangouts and Hangouts Chat settings for G Suite admins
- Google Lens is now integrated in Chrome's image search
- Google's Black Friday Sale
- He was inspired by Mr. Laporte - Lawton Swann
- MACLUNKEY! The Han/Greedo scene has an inexplicable change on Disney+ because George Lucas will never stop changing it