Dec 11th 2019
This Week in Google 538
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This Week's Stories:
- YouTube Rewind and Google's 2019 Year in Search
- Google Glass Explorer Edition gets its final update
- Magic Leap isn't there yet
- Twitter funding decentralized social media
- Fortnite vs Google, The Information vs Apple
- Pixel Feature Drop
- Google AI weather-based alarms
- Verizon is shutting down emails of archivists trying to save Yahoo Groups
- Spotify's 2019: podcasts, podcasts, podcasts
Picks of the Week:
- Jeff's Thing: First community of 3D printed homes
- Ant's Thing: When The Fire Alarm Goes Off At 3:30 AM
- Stacey's Thing: Philips Hue Sync Box
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Links
- YouTube Rewind 2019
- Google Trends Year in Search 2019
- Google puts Glass Explorer Edition out to pasture with final update
- Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses — The Information
- Google says it won’t grant Fortnite an exemption to the Play Store’s 30 percent cut - The Verge
- Making Pixel more helpful with the first Pixel feature drop
- Waze will show unplowed streets -- not that you cushy West Coast people care
- Google rolling out alarms based on weather, etc.
- Chrome 79 released with tab freezing, back-forward caching, and loads of security features | ZDNet
- Google Assistant now supports Google Keep and other notes/lists services
- Google offering free Nest Mini speakers to Google Fi customers
- All Google Fi-Supported Android Devices Get Spam Call Warnings, WiFi Calling
- ARCore phones can now detect depth with a single camera
- Gmail will let you attach emails to emails
- Google Maps' Incognito Mode arrives on iOS | VentureBeat
- Ryan Reynolds' answer to Leo's Peleton defensiveness
- Verizon kills email accounts of archivists trying to save Yahoo Groups history | ZDNet
- As Spotify ‘Wraps’ the decade, it reveals the payoff from podcast investments | The Drum
- Cisco unveils chip, routers it says will power ‘internet for the future’
- First community of 3D printed homes
- Philips Hue Sync Box
- When The Fire Alarm Goes Off At 3:30 AM