This Week in Google with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Jan 24th 2024

This Week in Google 752

The Mole Man of Hackney

Media Layoffs, Rat Selfies, Ello's Demise

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Category: News

Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids

Sports Illustrated Thrown Into Chaos With Mass Layoffs

Is it time to give up on old news?

Instagram’s new ‘nighttime nudges’ aim to reduce teens’ time on the app

The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams

The FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as “free” unless they are actually free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads misleading

An online pastor indicted in a $1.3 million crypto scam releases video explaining that God told him to sell crypto and spend proceeds on home remodel

The TikTok ‘Tunnel Girl’ Is Not Alone

Rat selfies

Disney offers an elegant solution to VR’s movement problem

Starting Feb 22, you can no longer use Google Groups to post to Usenet, if you were still doing that

The Traitors (on Peacock) is actually quite good

Herman Miller power boxes

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