Jan 4th 2023
This Week in Google 697
Don't Track Me, Bro
CES 2022, Meta EU mega-fine, facial recognition arrest, Shift Happens
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Glenn Fleishman
- This Device Will Not Let You LOL Unless You Mean It.
- The Mutalk Microphone Seals Your Voice In Virtual Reality.
- Bird Buddy’s new smart hummingbird feeder can photograph and identify 350 different bird species.
- Roku Is Now Making Its Own TVs.
- Sony breaks from tradition and won’t announce new TVs at CES 2023.
- This Virtual Twitch Streamer is Controlled Entirely By AI.
- Bills safety Damar Hamlin in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest.
- YouTube TV lands Sunday Ticket with deal between Google, NFL.
- European regulators ruled Meta can’t use its contracts with users to justify sending them ads based on their online activity, a blow to the digital advertising industry.
- Shift Happens.
- Typewriter art.
- Public Domain Expansion 2022: Highlights of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernist Writers in HathiTrust’s Newly Opened Volumes.
- False Match That Led to Arrest Highlights Danger of Facial Recognition.
- Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker.
- Ana de Armas Fans’ Lawsuit Puts Studios at Risk Over Deceptive Trailers.
- ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists.
- Google and Meta’s Advertising Dominance Fades as TikTok, Streamers Emerge.
- Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever to Lose $200 Billion.
- Twitter's San Francisco HQ reportedly a hub of stinky smells.
- Mastodon 9 million: growth continues in fits and starts (but not all millions are the same).
- Eugen turns down VC investment; vows to stay nonprofit.
- friendica – A Decentralized Social Network.
Picks:
- Jeff - Golden Gate gets $400 million for earthquake retrofit.
- Leo - Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann.
- Ant - Coach Prime on Amazon.
- Glenn - Robert Garcia plans swearing in on part on a Superman comic.
- Jeff - George Santos humor.
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Links
- This Device Will Not Let You LOL Unless You Mean It
- Roku Is Now Making Its Own TVs - CNET
- This Virtual Twitch Streamer is Controlled Entirely By AI
- [toread] European regulators ruled Meta can’t use its contracts with users to justify sending them ads based on their online act
- False Match That Led to Arrest Highlights Danger of Facial Recognition
- Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker | TechCrunch
- Google and Meta’s Advertising Dominance Fades as TikTok, Streamers Emerge
- Elon first person to lose $200 billion
- Mastodon 9 million: growth continues in fits and starts (but not all millions are the same)
- Eugen turns down VC investment; vows to stay nonprofit
- Golden Gate in "fair" condition
- Watch "Coach Prime" docu-series
- Robert Garcia plans swearing in on part on a Superman comic
- George Santos humor