This Week in Google 585

TikTok to Trump: What's Up?

• Amazon Halo Band impressions
• Eric Schmitt applies to be a citizen of Cyprus
• Google trials light-based internet in Africa
• Facebook, Google, and Twitter extend political ad bans to the detriment of Georgia
• reMarkable 2 E-ink tablet first impressions - a beautiful, useless tablet
• TikTok wants to know if Trump still wants to ban them
• EU sues Amazon over Antitrust
• Bye-bye, Ajit Pai
• Zoom settles with FTC over encryption
• Zoom stock tumbles with virus news
• Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform
• Slingbox shutting servers down
• Chipotle is opening an online order-only restaurant
• Pope Francis urges followers to pray that AI and robots will always serve mankind

 

• Picks of the Week
• Leo's Tool: Curious Elixirs
• Stacey's Thing: Ghia
• Jeff's Stuff: NYT digital revenue tops print for the first time
• Ant's Stuff: If You Can't Afford Adobe Audition, Get Izotope for $100 off
• Ant's Stuff 2: Dream of Italy (ep #2)

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Links

• The former CEO of Google has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
• What 2m gets you
• Google's moves to bring high-speed net to Africa via light transmission
• Facebook and Google indefinitely extend their ban on political ads
• Twitter, Facebook political ad ban hurting candidates in Georgia runoff
• FB says less than 6% of what users see is politics
• EU antitrust suit vs Amazon
• Related: Ben Evans on market definition and monopoly
• Amazon Halo band
• TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it, would like to know what’s up
• Zoom settles with FTC after making ‘deceptive’ security claims
• Following positive COVID-19 vaccine news, Zoom's shares fell 15%+ and other "stay-at-home" stocks like Amazon and Netflix drop
• Tim Berners Lee’s startup Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform for enterprises
• Updating Google Photos’ storage policy to build for the future
• Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall
• Google is asking us to help its AI organize our photos by labeling them
• Google will factor speed, experience in search ranking starting in May
• Google hides free movies in Maps in UK
• YouTube Premium Members are being offered Free Stadia Premiere Edition
• Google adds status updates to the Pixel's Personal Safety app
• Google Maps is getting a Trips tab that shows your last vacations before COVID-19
• RIP Slingbox
• Chipotle is opening a 'digital-only restaurant' to serve up app, online orders
• Pope Francis urges followers to pray that AI and robots ‘always serve mankind’
• Curious Elixirs
• Ghia
• NYT digital revenue tops print for first time
• If You Can't Afford Adobe Audition, Get Izotope for $100 off
• Dream of Italy