This Week in Google 568

•  GINORMOUS TWITTER HACK
•  Elon Musk, Obama, BillGates, and other verified Twitter accounts hacked in bitcoin scam
•  All verified Twitter accounts shut down
•  Zoom debuts a $600 all-in-one videoconference device
• Alabama is the only state not investigating Google for antitrust
• Twitter partner Dataminr sold Black Lives Matter protest surveillance to police
•  Facebook might ban political ads - is this a good idea?
• Amazon shows off Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart that automatically checks you out
•  Google Ngram gets a huge upgrade
•  Why Tik Tok is winning, and why it is dangerous
•  US cyber attacked Russian trolls in 2018
•  Google's ATAP invents a remote control for your smart home
• Eric Schmitt's secret summer camp
•  Apple wins $14.5 Billion Irish Tax battle on appeal
•  Roman roads as a subway map
•  The Google Changelog: Gmail integrates Meet, Chat, and Docs | Google Photos adds recent photos filter | Google Lens shortcut | Google Fit adds YouTube Playlists | 15 Years of Google Earth | Zoombombing protection for Google Meet

 

•  Leo's Tool 1: WindowSwap
• Leo's Tool 2: Leo's mask fitters arrived!
•  Stacey's Thing: 9 Words Formed by Mistakes
• Jeff's Number 1: Quibi lost 90% of free subscribers
• Jeff's Number 2: Disney+ signups increased by 641% due to Hamilton
•  Ant's Stuff: BTS Ant's COVID-19 Regs
•  Karsten's Mask: Bluetooth-connected face mask that can record conversations, amplify the wearer’s voice, make phone calls, transcribe speech into texts and translate Japanese speech into 8 different languages.
•  Leo's Mask: UVMask: Real-Time UV-C Filtration & Purification Face Mask
•  Jeff's Mask: Martyn Percy shows off a mask by Cecilie Birk Dehli

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Links

• OMG, great upgrade to Google Ngram
• Google Reportedly Now Facing Antitrust Probes in Every State but One
• Google’s secretive ATAP lab is imagining the future of smart devices
• Facebook Considers Banning Political Ads Before US 2020 Election - Bloomberg
• Amazon unveils Dash Cart
• An email banning our staff from using TikTok? Haha, funny story about that, we didn't mean it – Amazon
• Twitter Says Its Partner Dataminr Wasn't Surveilling Protests for Local Cops, Just 'News Alerting'
• Apple, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and other accounts are tweeting a bitcoin scam in giant Twitter hack
• President Trump says the US conducted a 2018 cyberattack on Russian trolls
• Leaked Gmail redesign integrates Chat, Meet, and document collaboration in one place
• Google Photos now lets you easily find your recently uploaded pictures on Android
• Gboard prepares a Google Lens shortcut, dark/light themes that follow system, and Google Assistant dictation support
• Google Fit adds curated YouTube playlists about exercising at home
• Here’s to you: 15 years of Google Earth stories
• Google Meet adds zoombombing protection for education customers
• Zoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599 | TechCrunch
• The TikTok War – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Roman roads as subway map
• Apple Wins Major Tax Battle Against EU
• Stacey on IoT Event: Everything is Connected
• Jeff Jarvis' Covid Twitter List
• WindowSwap
• Leo's Mask Fitter
• 9 Words Formed by Mistakes
• Quibi lost 90% of free subscribers
• Disney+ signups increased 641% due to Hamilton
• BTS Ant's COVID-19 Regs
• Bluetooth-connected face mask that can record conversations, amplify the wearer’s voice, make phone calls, transcribe speech
• UVMask: Real-Time UV-C Filtration & Purification Face Mask
• Martyn Percy shows off a mask by Cecilie Birk Dehli