This Week in Google 553

Best Zoom Backgrounds, April Fools Canceled!

• Spiffing up your work from home video with Zoom, Prezi, and Sesame Street
• Siva Vaidhyanathan wins Zoom backgrounds
• Rating the media's work-from-home setups
• What do we want the world to look like after coronavirus?
• April Fools is canceled: Google forgoes its traditional April Fools jokes
• What happened to Adrian Lamo? A TWiT true-crime podcast
• Facebook pledges $100 Million for local news outlets hit by the coronavirus
• Amazon fires strike organizer
• Microsoft announces that they will keep their conferences virtual through 2021
• Apple is the new Microsoft - Apple buys Dark Sky and shuts off Android app
• Hangouts is staggering under load
• A deep dive into how weather forecasting works in America
• Google Drive folder structure will change in September
• Wyze updates security cams so you can use them as webcams
• How to set up your point-and-shoot camera as a webcam
• Amazon and Walmart cut off Buzzfeed's affiliate marketing deals
• Astrophysicist coronavirus inventor gets magnets stuck up nose

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Zotero
• Stacey's Thing: The Hidden Girl and The Paper Menagerie
• Jeff's Numbers: Romance via drone

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Links

• Google cancels its infamous April Fools’ jokes this year
• Hangout 25X higher than January (and suffering)
• Facebook Pledges $100 Million for News Outlets Hit by Coronavirus Outbreak
• Sources: Amazon, Walmart suspend commerce marketing deals with digital media
• New York Attorney General Looks Into Zoom’s Privacy Practices - The New York Times
• Jarvis on COVID-19 as slow-motion 9/11
• Siva zoom
• Man into Potato
• That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
• Sesame Street Backgrounds for Zoom
• Prezi
• Zotero
• The Hidden Girl and The Paper Menagerie
• Romance via drone
• Huge increase in consumption of news on Facebook
• Pixel 3 & XL discontinued