Jul 22nd 2020
This Week in Google 569
Lettuce Cats
Twitter hack fallout, Tesla's Austin Gigafactory, Softbank sells ARM to Nvidia?
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- Twitter hack fallout: some verified Twitter accounts are still down
- Zuckerberg pinkie swears that he doesn't have a deal with Trump
- Softbank wants to sell ARM - will Nvidia buy it?
- Tesla's next gigafactory will be built in Austin
- Twitter bans thousands of Q-Anon accounts
- Google's camera wizard goes to Adobe
- How Linotype worked
- Canon EOS R5 review
- FTC Facebook Antitrust Giphy drama
- Eric Schmitt wants to start a university for artificial intelligence coders
- Cisco's Indian caste system discrimination suit
- EU voice assistant antitrust suit
- Electric clocks in Europe are falling behind - time to mine bitcoin
- Google Changelog: authenticated logos | Shoploop | Google Maps Bikeshare | Life in a Day
- Smoked Queso recipe from Meat Church
- Tik Tok might move to America
Picks of the Week:
- Stacey's Thing: Camera mount for a telescope
- Jeff's Numbers: Amazon is the #1 US Advertiser: $7b spent
- Ant's Pick 1: Lexicon Valley Podcast
- Ant's Pick 2: Trumpatine - Trump tweets read by Emperor Palpatine
- Karsten's mask 1: Fiber Optic Light-Up Mask
- Karsten's mask 2: 10 popular masks everyone is buying on Amazon
- Karsten's mask 3: These “movie monsters” face masks are the coolest way to stay safe and support a good cause
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Links
- The brain behind the Google Pixel camera is building a universal camera app for Adobe - The Verge
- Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside - The New York Times
- Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack? — Krebs on Security
- The Twitter Hack — What exactly happened? | by Lucky225 | Jul, 2020 | Medium
- Twitter Is at Its Best When Verified Accounts Can’t Tweet | WIRED
- Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown
- Google to use authenticated logos to reduce phishing, spam
- Google Area 120 introduces Shoploop, new way to shop online (TikTok for cash registers?)
- Google Maps offers end-to-end nav with bikeshare locations
- Google's making it easier for first-time homebuyers to figure out the mortgage process
- On July 25, 2020, film your day and you may become part of a historic global documentary, produced by Ridley Scott
- Killer Fauci/Hamilton video
- Grilled, smoked queso taking over TikTok
- U.S. TikTok Hysteria Teeters Toward The Idiotic | Techdirt
- Talk of TikTok breakup to save it
- AT&T sends out email scaring customers into thinking they need to upgrade phones
- Softbank selling ARM?
- A Limited Edition Pairing Featuring a Box of House Wine Rosé and White Cheddar Cheez-It Crackers
- Ojai Valley Taxidermy
- GREAT film on the last day of the linotype at the NYTimes
- Event: Everything is Connected
- California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on India’s caste system
- SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm Said to Attract Nvidia Interest
- Here's what Stacey wants for her background
- Rejected Option #1
- Rejected Option #2
- SO MUCH BETTER
- Camera mount for a telescope - affiliate link
- Amazon is the #1 US Advertiser: $7b spent
- Trumpatine - Trump tweets read by Emperor Palpatine
- Fiber Optic Light-Up Mask - Karsten owns this one
- 10 popular masks everyone is buying on Amazon
- These “Movie Monsters” Face Masks Are the Coolest Way to Stay Safe and Support a Good Cause