Feb 12th 2020
This Week in Google 546
The Karsten Doctrine
MWC Cancelled, Galaxy Z Flip, Essential Flops
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- Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled due to Coronavirus fears
- Essential shuttered
- Google head of HR steps down
- The US charges Chinese military officials with hacking Equifax
- Huawei is "definitely spying on us" - US
- Sprint / T-Mobile merger passes another hurdle
- All the ways Coronavirus is affecting tech
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip: the first great foldable, or the next big flop?
- FTC investigates Google acquisitions
- German Man's proposal shows up on Google Maps
- Epic Twitter thread: Amazon ships the wrong box, over and over
- Nest requires 2-factor for all accounts to satisfy California IoT law
- Facebook's Twitter account gets hacked
- Should Clearview AI be allowed to scrape your face?
- Wacom tablets track the applications you open - moral panic or privacy violation?
- Is Spotify going to destroy podcasting?
- Google files OS trademark "Pigweed"
- Google adblocker bans non-skippable preroll ads
- Google bans 3rd-Party cookies
- Bill Gates doesn't buy a hydrogen yacht
- Fill out the TWiT Survey!: twit.to/survey20
Picks of the Week:
- Leo's Tool: Justine Haupt’s Rotary Cellphone
- Ant's Good Stuff: Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story on Netflix
- Stacey's Thing 1: Tweet Cute
- Stacey's Thing 2: Slay
- Jeff's Number 1: Google finds 6 needs states in search
- Jeff's Number 2: Bezos buys Geffen mansion in LA for $165 million
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Links
- Mobile World Congress 2020 has been cancelled over coronavirus concerns
- MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on MWC barcelona 2020)
- A roundup of the coronavirus outbreak's impact on the tech sector
- China launches coronavirus 'close contact detector' app - BBC News
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip first look: folding glass changes everything
- Motorola RAZR review: I wanted to love it, but here's why I'm returning it
- Samsung's Galaxy S20 Ultra vs. the competition: The most megapixels
- Essential shutting down after failing to launch radical ‘GEM’ smartphone
- The FTC is looking into Google's acquisitions over the last decade
- Google's head of HR leaves in tumultuous times
- Google’s head of HR to step down
- Google to force two-factor on Nest users
- Marriage proposal shows up on Google Maps
- Facebook's Twitter Account Just Got Hijacked (For Like 2 Seconds)
- Amazon packages of granola
- Facebook's Twitter Account Just Got Hijacked (For Like 2 Seconds)
- U.S. charges Chinese spies with massive Equifax hack - POLITICO
- Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open | Robert Heaton
- Chrome ad blocker to target three annoying video ads - 9to5Google
- Google Chrome to block file downloads – from .exe to .txt – over HTTP by default this year. And we're OK with this
- Now you. Can Text like this thanks. To Google’s new speech to text. Settings.
- Google removes Androidify avatar maker from Play Store
- Google releases TyDi QA, a data set that aims to capture the uniqueness of languages
- Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? - BIG by Matt Stoller
- Someone Built a Distraction-Free Cellphone With a Working Old-School Rotary Dial
- Willy T Ribbs
- Tweet Cute
- SLAY
- Google finds 6 needs states in search
- Google Maps 15th birthday
- Bezos buys Geffen mansion in LA