This Week in Google 536

This Week's Stories:

• New Google ad policy
• Alphabet reboots its robotics program
• Facebook buys VR studio behind Beat Saber
• Amazon reportedly has plans for bigger cashier-less supermarkets in 2020
• Alexa has new emotions and speaking styles
• Twitter has plans to kill dormant accounts
• Killer new musical instrument from Artiphon
• Massachusetts State Police is the first Law Enforcement Agency to use Spot, a robotic dog.

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Number: Popular and horrid Thanksgiving side dishes
• Stacey's Thing: Hue Smart Button

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Links

• Popular Thanksgiving Side Dishes, by State, According to Google | CNBC
• Horrid Thanksgiving Side Dishes | Fox News
• Twitter says it will kill dormant accounts; friends of deceased Tweeters very upset about this | Twitter
• UPDATE: Twitter puts plan on hold | Axios
• Google Quietly Kills Cloud Print | Thurrott.com
• Google to Limit Targeting of Political Ads | The New York Times
• Related: Trump, GOP attack new Google ad policy | Apnews
• Alphabet's rebooted robotics program starts with trash-sorting machines | Engadget
• Massachusetts State Police Became The First Law Enforcement Agency to Use a Robot Dog Named Spot | CNN
• Mass. State Police Tested Out Boston Dynamics’ Spot The Robot Dog. Civil Liberties Advocates Want To Know More | WBUR
• Use New Alexa Emotions and Speaking Styles to Create a More Natural and Intuitive Voice Experience
• Google losing the war to speed up web pages--and we all lose | Search Engine Journal
• Killer new musical instrument from Artiphon
• Artiphon
• Airpod punk
• Amazon reportedly plans bigger cashierless supermarkets for 2020 | The Verge
• Facebook buys VR studio behind Beat Saber | TechCrunch
• Facebook brings Stories to Facebook Dating | The Verge
• Gmail on your phone is about to get more interactive | CNET
• Google Docs is getting Gmail's autocomplete smarts | Engadget
• Google Pay expands internationally and supports 62 new banks | Android Police
• Google Photos adding markup tool that will let you doodle on your images | Android Central
• Buy movie tickets with the Google Assistant on Chrome
• 17-year-old's makeup site on TikTok blocked after she criticizes China | Washington Post
• Mozilla wants to rethink the next gen of smart home - with privacy 'at the core of its design'.
• https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/how-smart-homes-could-be-wiser/
• Russian VR Cows | CNN
• NTSB Hearing Blames Humans, Software And Policy For Fatal Uber Robocar Crash - But Mostly Humans | Forbes
• Hue Smart Button
• Majority of Shoppers Will do Holiday Shopping Online | Washington Post
• New tech publication from owner of Politico