Jan 12th 2022
This Week in Google 646
The Opposite of Long Covid
Web3, Google vs. Sonos, Samsung no-shows, worst of CES, Google Ripple
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mike Elgan
- Taco Bell launches Taco Lover's Pass subscription nationwide with 30 days of tacos for $10.
- You can safely ignore Web3 by Mike Elgan.
- Web .0000012 by Jeff Jarvis.
- My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike.
- Signal: New year, new CEO.
- Casey Newton: How Signal is playing with fire w/untraceable financial transactions.
- ‘Second time lucky?’ FTC’s case against Facebook can move forward, federal judge rules.
- After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful.
- Why Apple’s iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble.
- Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch and won’t say why.
- Samsung Electronics to Unveil Exynos 2200 AP on Launch Day of Galaxy 22.
- Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk’s Starlink antenna hits surprise problem.
- Why is Zynga worth a whopping $12.7 billion? (Hint: It’s not FarmVille).
- 500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining.
- Wordle - A daily word game.
- Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers.
- An open letter to YouTube’s CEO from the world’s fact-checkers.
- Worst of CES: Right-to-repair name and shames terrible tech.
- Third-Party Software for Teslas Can Be Hacked, German Teen Says.
- E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns.
- About 70 S.Korean attendees of U.S. tech show test positive for COVID-19.
- US man claims his penis has shrunk due to rare Covid side effect.
- When Axel Webber Was Rejected from Juilliard, TikTok Stepped In.
- Marques Brownlee: My Pixel 6 Pro has slowly gotten so buggy since launch in October that I can no longer recommend it at $900.
- Google rolling out Android 12L Beta 2 for Pixel phones.
- Google details changes to Speaker Group controls & device setup following Sonos ruling.
- Pixel Launcher ‘At a Glance’ widget gains doorbell camera previews, more.
- Now you can learn what’s new in each Google Play system update for Android.
- Google launches Ripple, an open standard that could bring tiny radars to Ford cars and more.
- The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism.
- The Athletic: Good for the Times, a potential disaster for local news.
- “Aw, screw it”: LAPD cops hunted Pokémon instead of responding to robbery.
- We’re Giving Wyze Person Detection to All Users at Whatever Price You Want.
Picks:
- Mike - Chatterbox is the only smart speaker that meets EDUCATIONAL and PRIVACY standards
- Jeff - Most populous time zone
- Leo - Morgan Stanely out with quite the note on the idea of the mobile metaverse
- Ant - A great time on Behind the Shot TV with Steve Brazill and Don Komarechka
- Ant - #hardhead Modeled for Me and Jefferson Graham at Balmy Alley
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Links
- Mike's article: You can safely ignore Web3
- Jarvis thread responding to Mullenweg thread; does WP provide an answer to Moxie?
- Moxie's post that launched a thousand threads
- Moxie leaves Signal
- Casey Newton: How Signal is playing with fire w/untraceable financial transactions
- ‘Second time lucky?’ FTC’s case against Facebook can move forward, federal judge rules.
- After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful
- Why Apple’s iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble
- Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch and won’t say why | Ars Technica
- Samsung Electronics to Unveil Exynos 2200 AP on Launch Day of Galaxy 22
- Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk’s Starlink antenna hits surprise problem
- Why is Zynga worth a whopping $12.7 billion? (Hint: It’s not FarmVille) | Ars Technica
- 500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining – Krebs on Security
- Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers
- Worst of CES: Right-to-repair name and shames terrible tech • The Register
- An open letter to YouTube’s CEO from the world’s fact-checkers
- E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns
- When Axel Webber Was Rejected from Juilliard, TikTok Stepped In - The New York Times
- Google rolling out Android 12L Beta 2 for Pixel phones
- Google details changes to Speaker Group controls & device setup following Sonos ruling
- Pixel Launcher ‘At a Glance’ widget gains doorbell camera previews, more
- Now you can learn what’s new in each Google Play system update for Android
- Google launches Ripple, an open standard that could bring tiny radars to Ford cars and more
- Associated Press to sell NFTs
- NYT buys The Athletic: bad news for local news
- “Aw, screw it”: LAPD cops hunted Pokémon instead of responding to robbery | Ars Technica
- Wyze pay-as-you-like pricing
- Mike: Chatterbox is the only smart speaker that meets EDUCATIONAL and PRIVACY standards
- Most populous time zone
- Morgan Stanely out with quite the note on the idea of the mobile metaverse.
- Technology was never supposed to make your life easier
- A great time on Behind the Shot TV with Steve Brazill and Don Komarechka
- #hardhead Modeled for Me and Jefferson Graham at Balmy Alley