This Week in Google 581

Bad Pixel 5 Reviews, Kitchen Tech, Facebook Can't Fix Itself

• Pixel 5 reviews are pretty negative, especially of the camera - should we get an iPhone 12 instead?
•  5G is the WIMAX of 2020. Watch this 5G Supercut!
•  5G will be a big deal sometime. It just isn't now.
• Google vs Oracle amicus briefs for sale
•  Google's Search On live event is barely news. We'd rather be at the Smart Kitchen Summit
•  Smart ovens and other food tech
•  It all comes back to Gutenberg
• Google Changelog: tighten your shoelaces with OK Google | Android is listening | storytelling smart screens | 6 new things you can do with Android 11 | RIP Play Music Store | - amplifies Black voices
• Nvidia's super new Zoom features
•  The Gartner Hype Cycle and the Trough of Disillusionment
•  Google gives the police your search keywords
•  Google employees can't say antitrust
•  Google is firing workers and shipping work off to Poland
•  Why Facebook can't fix itself
•  Facebook takes down erroneous NY Post article about Hunter Biden
•  Clarence Thomas wants to scale back Section 230
•  Writing directly into the CMS is Chaotic Evil
•  All airline pilots try to sound like Chuck Yeager, who went to school with Jeff Jarvis' dad

 

• Picks of the Week
•  Leo's Tool: Johns Hopkins Poker Course
•  Stacey's Thing: Chef IQ
• Jeff's Number: Bletchley Park gets $1m donation from FB
• Jeff's Number 2: Jeff's Scoop Awards keynote
•  Ant's Stuff: OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs - https://amzn.to/3iVvpjv (affiliate link)
•  Ant's Stuff 2: It's Not WHAT You Say

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Links

• Google ‘Search On’ livestream event to take place October 15
• Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust
• Google (GOOG), Oracle (ORCL) Financed Many Supporters in Supreme Court Faceoff - Bloomberg
• Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
• Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself | The New Yorker
• Facebook and Twitter try to limit ‘NY Post’ story on Joe Biden's son
• Now Clarence Thomas goes after 230
• Writing directly into the CMS is Chaotic Evil
• Google makes big push to integrate and let you control Android apps with Assistant
• New Android feature alerts you to smoke alarms and other 'critical' sounds
• Google opens Assistant Smart Displays to interactive education and storytelling apps
• 6 ways your Android is getting more helpful this fall
• Google completes worldwide shutdown of Play Music store
• YouTube announces slate of original series ‘dedicated to amplifying Black voices’
• NVidia creates super-Zoom features (good for TWiT?)
• Nvidia press release
• Video demo of AI video compression
• Yes, Pied Piper
• A Quarter Century of Hype - 25 Years of the Gartner Hype Cycle
• How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
• Zoomtopia 2020
• Johns Hopkins Poker Course
• Chef IQ
• Bletchley Park gets $1m donation from FB
• Jeff's Scoop Awards keynote
• OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs
• It's Not WHAT You Say