Jun 17th 2020
This Week in Google 564
Non Sequitur Land
Leo Buys a $75k Spot Robot, How to Block FB Political Ads
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- Watch Stacey's Machine Learning on the Edge Conference!
- Watch Leo on Alex Lindsay's Office Hours!
- Leo buys a $75,000 Boston Dynamics Spot robot
- Google puts Juneteenth on Google Calendar, creates a racial equity task force
- Google did not demonetize The Federalist
- Conservatives want to limit Google's and other social media's Section 230 protections
- Facebook and Instagram will let you block political ads, help 4 million people register to vote
- How to record Twitter audio clips
- Twitter removes Chinese, Turkish, and Russian propaganda accounts
- How the CIA was hacked in Vault 7
- Google tries to fight Zoom by adding Meet to Gmail
- Adobe Flash will finally die this year
- Why T-Mobile was down, and what the FCC will do about it
- Why the Internet Archive bought a record store
- US no longer in top 10 internet speed countries
- eBay executives send journalists roaches and a pig mask
- Leo's Tool: Bellus 3D Printed Mask Guards
- Stacey's Thing: The End of October by Lawrence Wright
- Jeff's Numbers: 21 years ago investment in Google
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Links
- Google makes Juneteenth an official Google Calendar holiday
- Memo: Google has created a task force to improve the company's racial equity which will listen to staff feedback
- Google demonitizes ZeroHedge and warns Federalist over NBC story
- No, Google Didn't Demonetize The Federalist & It's Not An Example Of Anti-Conservative Bias
- Is Google Stupid?
- FB, Instagram will let users block political ads
- Facebook launches Voting Information Center for accurate election information
- Facebook now says it won't even try to block 2020 election disinformation
- New Twitter audio clips
- Better yet
- Cardib audio post
- Story on audio tweets
- Twitter removed 32K+ accounts engaged in propaganda linked to Russia, China, and Turkey
- Twitter Branded Propaganda Machine by Turkey as Accounts Banned
- CIA report: security was so lax at the time of the Vault 7 breach
- Trump, Barr go after Section 230
- Twitter hires former Trump probe attorney Baker to fight for 230
- Hawley bill would allow suing platforms for "censoring political speech"
- Android Developers Blog: Unwrapping the Android 11 Beta, plus more developer updates
- In panic to beat Zoom, Gmail app will get full Google Meet integration (read: moar bloat)
- Files by Google may soon let you hide your private files in a ‘Safe Folder’
- Google confirms experiment to remove full address from URL bar in Chrome
- Google's Area 120 team has created a Pinterest clone called Tangi (Update: Android app)
- Google Pixel phones celebrate Pride Month w/ 16 new ‘Sounds of Pride’ ringtones
- Google Wallpapers celebrates Pride Month with fabulous rainbow-hued collection
- Adobe Flash will finally die on December 31, 2020
- T-Mobile’s outage yesterday was so big that even Ajit Pai is mad
- T-Mobile explains why its network went down, hard, on Monday
- Heads of PR and security at eBay arrested in bizarre attacks
- Bizarre eBay stalking arrests
- Boston Dynamics will now sell any business its own Spot robot for $74,500
- Machine Learning on the Edge
- Office Hours with Alex Lindsay
- The End of October: A novel Hardcover – Deckle Edge, April 28, 2020 - Amazon affiliate
- Bellus 3D
- 21 years ago investment in Google
- Amazon's media assets for $500b says analyst
- Levi's mask NO. 1 best seller at Amazon