Feb 5th 2020
This Week in Google 545
Doughy and Divisive
Is Google a Monopoly? Clearview Face Recognition
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
This Week's Stories:
- YouTube cuts off Clearview AI face recognition
- Google sent private videos to strangers
- Google shuts down Chinese offices over Coronavirus
- DOJ vs Google
- Iowa Caucus Kerfuffle
- Google Q4 2019 Earnings: YouTube makes you $15 billion/year
- How big do you have to be to be a monopoly?
- Olivetti: shutting down the first personal computer
- Google's Assembler can tell if an image has been photoshopped
- How to hack Google Maps traffic
- ZTE quarantines their Mobile World Congress staff
- Spotify buys The Ringer
- Hear the Canterbury Tales read by Terry Jones
- Sale of .org held up
- The new emoji for 2020
- Hummer electric 2020
- Philips Hue hack
- Google's open-source two-factor security key
Picks of the Week:
- Ant's Good Stuff #1: A Personal Black History Month Recognition
- Ant's Good Stuff #2: Belton by Alison Ashley Darby
- Stacey's Thing #1: Camect
- Stacey's Thing #2: Ruby Chocolate
- Jeff's Numbers: Amazon 150m Prime members
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Links
- GOOG Exhibit 99.1 Q4 2019 - 2019Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf
- Justice Department Ramps Up Google Probe, With Heavy Focus on Ad Tools - WSJ
- Alphabet-owned Jigsaw is testing Assembler, a tool to identify doctored photographs
- Google is temporarily shutting down all China offices due to coronavirus outbreak
- Google open-sources the tools needed to make 2FA security keys
- YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business, Google reveals for the first time - The Verge
- Democrats desperately need to win the internet to beat Trump. Their first big test was a massive failure.
- New Google notification gives you a daily overview of the stocks you follow
- Google Photos tests $8 monthly subscription that sends you prints of your best shots
- You can now buy Glass Enterprise Edition 2, but it’s only meant for developers
- Google begins rolling out Chrome update that can block cross-site tracking
- Use Google Pixel repair tool to update manually
- Google Fiber is dropping its TV package to focus solely on high-speed internet service
- Here are the 62 brand-new emoji for 2020
- The many meanings of the pinched fingers emoji
- GM is bringing back the Hummer as an electric ‘super truck’ with 1,000 horsepower
- The Mysterious Affair at Olivett - Amazon
- MAGA picture - photoshopped?
- Belton - Amazon
- Camect: World’s Smartest, Most Private Camera Hub
- Ruby Chocolate
- Amazon 150m Prime members
- App lets you hear Canterbury tales in 14thc English
- New App Lets You Hear Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in Original 14th-Century English
- Perfect state for a first primary? Let's go to the data: Illinois
- TWiT 2020 Audience Survey