Aug 26th 2020
This Week in Google 574
The Right to Be For Scottin
Bezos Hits $200B, Palantir IPO, Trump vs Twitter
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Bezos Hits $200B, Palantir IPO, Trump vs Twitter
- Jeff Bezos, the 200 Billion Dollar Man
- Palantir files for IPO; flips off Silicon Valley
- How much government secrecy is too much government secrecy?
- Verily is getting into insurance for health insurance
- Google to block heavy ads
- Oculus Connect renamed to Facebook Connect
- Facebook requires Oculus users to log in via Facebook
- Donald Trump asks the Supreme Court to let him block Twitter users
- Border Patrol claims the right to collect electronic data and keep it for 75 years from all citizens within 100 miles of the US Border
- Why college students should take a gap year in 2020 and what they should do with it
- Trader Joes has cacio e pepe, and other pasta tips
- The Scottish Wikipedia is written by an American in broken English
- Zoom day is the new snow day
- Why boys are doing better than girls in quarantine
- Picks of the Week
- Leo's Tool: Audible Plus
- Stacey's Thing: S'moresUp
- Stacey's Thing 2: THE CORPORATION FROM ALIEN SHARES ITS REOPENING PLAN
- Jeff's Number: Tech 5 account for 20% of stock market value
- Jeff's Number 2: Forty
- Ant's Stuff: DJI Osmo Mobile 4
- Ant's Stuff 2: Guest appearance on He Shoots He Draws podcast
- Karsten's Mask: A.I.R. Solo™ Personal UV Respirator
- Karsten's Mask 2: Leather ALIEN Facehugger Mask
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Links
- Verily, Google’s health-focused sister company, is getting into insurance
- Xooglers start school for gap year students
- Google to block "heavy" ads
- Oculus Connect is now ‘Facebook Connect,’ and it’s happening September 16th
- Bezos first person worth $200 billion
- Trump petitions Supreme Court to let him block users on Twitter again
- Make a copy of a key from the sound it makes in the lock
- US Border Patrol Says It Can Create Repo of Emails, Keep Them for 75 Years
- Google rolls out automatic dark/light mode switching to Gboard beta users
- Google Camera 7.5 does away with storing Pixel Portrait pairs in individual folders
- Google Chrome update with improved tabs & more
- Google Fi ending COVID-19 payment grace period, 30GB of full-speed data next week
- If Google’s weather frog can wear a mask, so can you
- Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley in letter to investors
- Your Rights in the Border Zone