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

Sep 18th 2024

This Week in Google 786

Now That's a Wikifoot

OpenAI o1, Flappy Bird, Instagram for Teens

Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests: Molly White
Category: News
  • Google Wins Fight to Scrap $1.7 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Ads
  • Exclusive: Google offered to sell part of ad tech business, not enough for EU publishers, sources say
  • Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes
  • Age verification AI for teen users...?
  • House panel advances Kids Online Safety Act despite pushback
  • The Battle to Ban Screens From School Now Includes Chromebooks and Tablets
  • Trump Rolls Out His New Cryptocurrency Business
  • How crypto bros wrested Flappy Bird from its creator
  • Ex-MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud Conspiracy After Taking Plea Deal
  • Inside Elon Musk’s Mushrooming Security Apparatus
  • Elizabeth McCafferty was offered £6,000 for images of her bare feet after they appeared on a fetish website without her consent.
  • The ‘feral 25-year-olds’ making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok
  • Apple’s new iOS 18 upgrade doesn’t fix the ‘green bubble’ problems
  • Discord launches end-to-end encrypted voice and video chats
  • Why OpenAI is Hiding its Reasoning Model’s ‘Thoughts’
  • Calif. Gov. Newsom Says He’s Worried About AI Bill
  • Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line
  • Can AI Really Replace Salesforce and Workday?
  • Mr. Beast's playbook
  • Google Photos now lets you flip your photos and videos horizontally
  • Google Chrome getting one-tap notification unsubscribe, starting on Pixel
  • YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google’s AI video model
  • Google Photos is getting a new 'Ultra HDR' editing option
  • Finally!! Google Slides adds multi-monitor support for presentations
  • Chromebook acting weird? Try Google’s new ChromeOS ‘Sanitize’ tool – a lighter, friendlier fix than the full-wipe ‘Powerwash‘ feature
  • The Office in Oz
  • Ig Nobels
  • The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
  • Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV

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