This Week in Google 470

• Data and Society's Joan Donovan tells us how to stop online hate.
• Leo explains why Google's location history tracking policy is a big deal.
• Google is working on its own Amazon Show competitor.
• NYU is giving Facebook 10,000 anonymized MRI scans to help train its AI systems.
• At the Hot Chips conference, Google's Pixel Visual Core and AMD's chip roadmap are all the rage.
• Facebook wants to rate how trustworthy you are to fight fake news
• Changelog: new Google Fit and some good news
• Everything you ever wanted to know about the Pixel 3 XL - in Russian!
• Google's Shortwave could change podcasting forever.

Picks of the Week:

• Joan's Stuff: Antisocial Media by Siva Vaidhanathan and Custodians of the Internet by Tarleton Gillespie
• Stacey's Thing: Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel
• Leo's Pick: Apple History on Triangulation

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Links

• Deplatforming Works
• Online Hate is Rampant. Here’s How to Keep it From Spreading - DataSociety
• Online Hate is Rampant. Here’s How to Keep it From Spreading - Wired
• APNewsBreak: Google clarifies location-tracking policy
• Man sues over Google’s “Location History” fiasco, case could affect millions | Ars Technica
• To Catch A Robber, The FBI Attempted An Unprecedented Grab For Google Location Data
• Oldest Hatton Garden burglar dubbed 'The Guv'nor', 76, used someone else's Freedom Pass Oyster Card to travel on the bus
• How Facebook -- yes, Facebook -- might make MRIs faster
• Google to debut display-equipped AI speaker before holidays - Nikkei Asian Review
• Hot Chips 2018: The Google Pixel Visual Core Live Blog (10am PT, 5pm UTC)
• Accelerating mobile and laptop performance: Arm announces Client CPU roadmap
• Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one
• Kelly Marie Tran: I Won’t Be Marginalized by Online Harassment
• Hey Google, tell me something good
• Introducing the new Google Fit
• Google is developing an experimental podcast app called Shortwave
• Antisocial Media - Amazon
• Custodians of the Internet - Amazon
• Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy - Amazon