Nov 10th 2021
This Week in Google 637
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Twitter Blue, Amazon's distopian holiday ad, Google's big EU fine, "on background"
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
- Leo recaps his Oaxaca trip.
- Twitter Blue launches today in the US with Ad-Free Articles.
- Twitter is building a crypto team.
- Square is going to make a hardware wallet for bitcoin.
- Google loses appeal against $2.7bn EU antitrust fine.
- YouTube is removing the dislike count on all videos across its platform.
- Troubleshooting Stacey's new Pixel 6 Pro.
- Judge denies stay in Epic v. Apple.
- AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-led Initiatives.
- Updating The Verge’s background policy.
- Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy.
- Adele debuts new song 'Hold On' in Amazon holiday ad.
- Facebook's "Meta" Trademark Application.
- Missing Girl Is Rescued After Using Hand Signal From TikTok.
- TikTok food creators (damnit, where's Salt_Hank?)
- TikTok @Jax plus violin.
- #TeamSeas: Help us remove 30 million pounds of trash by January 1st, 2022.
- Google is taking sign-ups for Relate, a voice assistant that recognizes impaired speech.
- Google Assistant no longer offers ‘Your News Update’ audio digests.
- Google Home 2.46 for Android brings promised Android/Google TV remote.
- Nest Hub (2nd gen) update adds sleep stages & localized snore detection, tracking now free until 2023.
- Adaptive Sound feature appears to be rolling out now to Pixel 6 devices.
- Used car market gets even more bizarre.
- TwitterTV: make an account a screensaver.
- The Chip That Could Transform Computing.
Picks:
- Stacey - Happy holidays! Here’s our 2021 gift guide!
- Ant - The Harder They Fall on Netflix
- Ant - Congrats and Good Luck to RCHS
- Ant - Register for the Wanderers' Photo Workshop
- Jeff - Apple’s first computer, a collector’s dream, could fetch $500,000 at auction
- Jeff - How much Wikipedia weighs
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Links
- Twitter Blue released
- Twitter building crypto team
- Google loses appeal against $2.7bn EU antitrust fine • The Register
- YouTube is removing the dislike count on all videos across its platform | TechCrunch
- Judge denies stay in Epic v. Apple - The Verge
- Updating The Verge’s background policy
- Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy
- Adele debuts new song 'Hold On' in Amazon holiday ad
- Facebook's "Meta" Trademark Application
- Missing Girl Is Rescued After Using Hand Signal From TikTok
- TikTok food creators (damnit, where's Salt_Hank?)
- TikTok @Jax plus violin
- Google is taking sign-ups for Relate, a voice assistant that recognizes impaired speech
- Google Assistant no longer offers ‘Your News Update’ audio digests
- Google is teasing its upcoming Black Friday sales, here's our breakdown
- Google Home 2.46 for Android brings promised Android/Google TV remote
- Nest Hub (2nd gen) update adds sleep stages & localized snore detection, tracking now free until 2023
- Adaptive Sound feature appears to be rolling out now to Pixel 6 devices
- Used car market gets even more bizarre - Axios
- Farhad kvells over Apple's chip (which will be more significant: speed or tensor's AI?)
- The Harder They Fall
- Congrats and Good Luck to RCHS
- Register for the Wanderers' Photo Workshop
- Apple’s first computer, a collector’s dream, could fetch $500,000 at auction
- How much Wikipedia weighs