May 27th 2020
This Week in Google 561
Lions vs. Gazelles
Google Offices Re-Open, Trump vs Twitter
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- Google reopening offices for some workers on June 6th, people working from home will get $1000 for furniture and office supplies
- Zuckerberg: Facebook employees can work from home, but if you move somewhere cheaper, we'll pay you less
- Big Tech work-from-home workers can buy these Montana mansions for less than a 1-bedroom in San Francisco
- California's anti-freelancer law under attack
- Switzerland: companies must pay rent for their employees who are working from home
- Google employees get a day off on May 22nd
- Twitter labels Trump tweet about mail-in-ballots "Get the facts," Trump threatens to shut down all social media
- Half of the tweets calling to "reopen America" are made by bots
- Pixel 4a not coming out until July 13th
- We are strip-mining the US economy, especially in the news business
- Google launches a podcast about Google
- CBS buys Some Good News, but won't get John Krasinski
- Prime Day moving to September
- Amazon launching local podcasts. Everybody else is launching podcasts, as well
- US court rules that FBI can't look at your phone's lock screen without a warrant
- Electric Taste Machine
- Electric Smell Machine
- Magic Leap stays alive, gets $350 Million- Google discontinues first Google Home
- Taco Bell doesn't want to pay Quibi for their ads, because nobody is watching
- HBO Max launches today, to the confusion of everyone
- What kind of Zoom user are you? Every Zoom user, illustrated by cats
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