Dec 16th 2020
Intelligent Machines 590
The Enlarged Bicep of Reason
Google outages, Facebook ads against Apple, Google WFH, Blob Opera
New episodes every Wednesday.
Google outages, Facebook ads against Apple, Google WFH, Blob Opera
- The Blob Opera.
- Facebook goes after Apple in newspaper ads.
- Facebook is a Doomsday Machine.
- Apple's big mobile ad industry change.
- Facebook's new TLDR service to summarize the news.
- Facebook's Super to compete with Cameo.
- Two big Google outages and how it affects business.
- Google's WFH strategy is becoming more permanent.
- 64-camera lighting rig that trained portrait lighting AI.
- Google Photos gets a bunch of new features.
- Google acquires Neverware.
- Google Design Best of 2020.
- Apple TV app coming to Chromecast.
- Some Google One tiers getting a 50% price cut.
- Nest Hub Max can now make Zoom video calls.
- Google Home Max is now dead.
- December Pixel feature drop is out.
- Picks of the week:
- Stacey's pick: The Spritzer.
- Jeff's number: MacKenzie Scott gives away $4b to 300+ orgs in four months.
- Ant's pick: Budget-friendly camera gimbal from Feiyutech.
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Links
- Internal memo: Google now plans to have employees return to office in September 2021
- Google used 64-camera rig to train portrait lighting AI
- Google has restored service after a significant number of Gmail users saw “error messages"
- Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
- Facebook Attacks Apple Software Changes in Newspaper Ads
- Facebook working on TLDR to summarize news articles (and endear them yet more) and another project to read your brain's commands
- Facebook is building a video product called Super that will let people pay content creators or celebrities to interact with them
- Apple’s seismic change to the mobile ad industry is drawing near, and it’s rocking the ecosystem
- Google’s new Chromecast is getting an Apple TV app soon
- 50% price cut for highest tiers of Google One storage
- Google Photos expands Memories
- Google acquires Neverware; will support Chrome OS on old PCs
- Google Home Max dead
- New Pixel feature drop
- Google Design Best of 2020
- Google's Nest Hub Max now makes Zoom video calls
- Blob opera!!!
- The Spritzer
- MacKenzie Scott gives awa $4b to 300+ orgs in 4 months
- Budget-friendly Camera Gimbal from Feiyutech