This Week in Google 534

Today's Stories

•  Google employee fired for leaks
•  Google secretly gathering healthcare data for "Project Nightingale"
•  Google ponders political ads: should it be like Facebook or Twitter?
•  Is YouTube going to take down your content for not being "commercially viable?"
•  Do you want a Google checking account?
•  Phil Schiller's Macbook vs Chromebook comment highlights America's growing wealth imbalance and education failures
•  Nest Mini vs Home Mini: tiny changes, huge improvement, same price?
•  Google and Twitter fail the anti-vax ad test
•  Flo and Ant explain why you don't need to upgrade to the Pixel 4

Picks of the Week:

•  Jason's Tool: Disney+
•  Ant's Good Thing: Three Nine Four Five portraits
•  Flo's Thing: "How to Mess Up Your Life by Trying to Use iMessage on an Android Phone"
•  Mathew's Stuff: Brave Browser

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Links

• One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions
• Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
• Google Weighs Changes to Political Ad Policy
• YouTube has run the misleading Trump ad accusing Biden of corruption, which was seen 10M-30M times, but Google says...
• YouTube says it has ‘no obligation’ to host anyone’s video
• Google to offer checking accounts in partnership with banks starting next year
• Phil Schiller says kids with Chromebooks are “not going to succeed” because Apple makes “cutting-edge learning tools”...
• Google and Twitter approved anti-vaccination ads, with widely debunked claims, submitted as part of a test; Facebook, Snap...
• There just aren't enough good reasons to upgrade to the Pixel 4
• Some Pixel 3 units are exhibiting Nexus 6P-like early shutdown problems
• Google Maps rolls out the ability for users to manage and edit their public profiles from within the app via the new...
• New compact Google Assistant inspired by Pixel 4 starts rolling out to older phones
• Pixel phones can now vibrate before ramping up the volume
• Chrome OS now shows your Chromebook’s End-of-Life info in Settings
• Google Chrome's upcoming badging system will shame slow-loading websites
• (Update: Fix incoming) Nest Hellos are stuck on Halloween themes with no way to revert them back
• Google updates Teachable Machine so you can train an AI without code
• Disinformation still running rampant on Facebook, study says
• Three Nine Four Five portraits
• How to Mess Up Your Life by Trying to Use iMessage on an Android Phone
• Brave Browser
• Disney+