Aug 1st 2018
This Week in Google 467
Techno Tragicomedy
Lenovo Smart Display, Pixel Rumors.
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
- Jeff unboxes his new Lenovo Smart Display. Our live Duo demo goes about as well as you'd expect.
- Facebook finds more political shenanigans.
- Google's Censored Search in China.
- Stacey has all the news from Google Cloud Next.
- Amazon's facial recognition software outs 28 US lawmakers as crooks.
- All the Pixel 3, Pixelbook, Pixel Watch, and Pixel Stand rumors we know.
- You want a notch on your phone? Fine. Two notches? Sure, why not? Three notches? HOLD UP THERE, BUDDY!
Picks of the Week
- Jeff's Number: 5 years of Chromecast
- Stacey's Thing: OSRAM SMART+ Outdoor Flex RGBW
- Jason's Tool: Fighting Spam Calls with Android
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Links
- LENOVO SMART DISPLAY REVIEW: THE GOOGLE APPLIANCE
- GOOGLE PLANS TO LAUNCH CENSORED SEARCH ENGINE IN CHINA, LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL
- Sources: Facebook has alerted Congress to new coordinated political influence campaign, with dozens of inauthentic accounts
- Jeff on MSNBC on FB
- Google unveils tiny new AI chips for on-device machine learning
- What a week! 105 announcements from Google Cloud Next '18
- Hiroshi Lockheimer on Twitter
- EvLeaks: Add to this fall hardware lineup a second-generation Pixelbook, with smaller bezels
- Amazon is selling Pixelbook on sale right now for $750 (i5, 8GB/128GB) - lowest seen so far
- Acer Chromebook Tab 10 review
- Pixel Stand' is likely Google's wireless charging dock for the Pixel 3 w/ Assistant features
- Google bans Android phones from having three or more notches
- Google app 8.14 reveals ‘Pixel Stand,’ expands At a Glance compatibility, preps car pairing [APK Insight]
- Letter from Shenzhen
- Google Daydream View virtual reality headset is $70 off
- 10 things we’ve heard so far about Google Pixel watch
- Google follows in Apple’s footsteps by cleaning up its Play Store
- Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York - The Verge
- Amazon’s Rekognition messes up, matches 28 lawmakers to mugshots | Ars Technica
- Free guacamole fail! Chipotle’s site and app are having technical difficulties
- 5 years of Chromecast
- OSRAM SMART+ Outdoor Flex RGBW
- How Android Is Fighting Spam Calls