Jan 22nd 2020
This Week in Google 543
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New Jersey Twitter Account, Alphabet reaches $1 Trillion Market Value
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This Week's Stories:
- Alphabet reaches 1 Trillion Dollars
- Sonos Speaker Update Angers Leo and Stacey
- Changing Expectations on Home System Updates
- The State of NJ Has a Twitter Account
- Local Newspaper and Radio is the Victim of the Internet
- Jeff Bezos's Phone Hacked by Saudi Crown Prince
- Facial Recognition is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
- Greenwald Charged with Cyber Crimes
- Grammy Face Allegations
- Google Now Offers Rubrics
- Google's New Apps to Reduce Screen Time
Picks of the Week:
- Leo’s Tool: Wiki Software
- Stacey's Thing: Casper Glow
- Jeff's Numbers: Preview of Sage
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Links
- Alphabet Becomes Fourth U.S. Firm to Reach $1 Trillion Market Value | WSJ
- Apple dropped encrypted backups; Google hasn't | Android Central
- Google publishes highest res map of brain connections (of a fruit fly) | The Verge
- Impact of Google's cookie plan on publishers: trouble | AdExchanger
- Supreme Court declines to hear Facebook facial recognition case | TheHill
- Facebook, Twitter hold evidence that could save people from prison. And they’re not giving it up | SFChronicle.com
- New Yorker discovers NJ's Twitter account, @njgov | New Yorker
- Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' | The Guardian
- Jeff Bezos tweets image from Jamal Khashoggi memorial amid MBS hacking allegations
- Opinion | Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough | The New York Times
- Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google bashed by smaller rivals at congressional antitrust hearing | The Washington Post
- Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil | The New York Times
- Google releases 3 new experimental apps to help cut down your phone usage | Android Police
- Google experiment makes your phone simpler by putting it in an envelope | CNET
- Google sets timeline for phasing out support for Chrome Apps across all operating systems by July 2022
- Google Duo on the web no longer requires a phone number | XDA Developers
- Google Podcasts lets you share time-stamped podcast episodes | Android Police
- Google Classroom rubrics and originality reports exit beta | 9to5Google
- Google to give free Stadia (plural?) to new Fios customers | The Verge
- Google adds watchlist feature under movie searches on mobile (is this new?) | Komando
- Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service | Ars Technica
- Jarvis: Preview of Sage, expert-based web from former CEO of Glam | Medium
- Maker of podcast Serial explores sale to NY Times | Wall Street Journal
- The Morning After: Sonos 'legacy' plan makes smart homes look silly | Engadget
- Sonos speaker update sparks anger | BBC
- Wiki Software
- Casper Glow (TWiT Sponsor)
- The Next Net: Expertise, Authority