This Week in Google 586

Google Pay, Fleets, L'Oreal Digital Makeup

•  Nest outage takes out security cameras
•  Fleets are Twitter's version of Snapchat's disappearing posts
•  Say hello to the new Google Pay
•  What is an Internet Bank?
•  Google Photos is no longer free. Is this evil?
•  Google is mysteriously uploading data
•  Apple and Google are thinking about 6G
•  L'Oreal introduces digital makeup
•  The story of SAGE
•  YouTube kills Rewind 2020
•  What is your Zoom strategy for Thanksgiving?
•  Amazon Pharmacy offers free prescriptions for Prime members
•  Google Changelog: Barely Blue | TVA Solar Farms | Chimera | RIP Expeditions | Assistant Driving Mode | Tab Search
•  The sound of the end of WW1

 

• Picks of the Week
•  Stacey's Thing: Ring Mailbox Sensor
•  Jeff's Stuff: Masks fuel Etsy surge (via Ben)
•  Ant's Stuff: Musicians Share How The Songs Happened

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Links

• Nest outage takes down app, devices in November 2020 - 9to5Google
• Announcement of new Google Pay (new link)
• New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in us
• Google and Apple join Next G Alliance, years ahead of commercial 6G
• YouTube is canceling Rewind this year because 2020 has been too much
• Amazon Pharmacy: Free prescription delivery for Prime members
• Improperly Installed Ring Cameras Are Catching Fire and Causing Minor Burns
• Twitter starts rolling out fleets -- expiring tweets
• Google launches Pixel 4A in limited-edition 'Barely Blue' color
• TVA announces two new solar farms for Google and Vanderbilt
• Use Google's AI to make monsters with Chimera
• Google shuts down Expeditions
• Google finally brings driving mode to Assistant
• Google Chrome introduces tab search — here’s how to use it
• Post-cookie world: Federated login? Conversion management? Only the big guys win (again)?
• Great 1956 IBM video of SAGE: the computer with people inside
• Fascinating project recreating audio of the armistice ending WWI
• L'Oreal introduces virtual, AR makeup
• Zoom Santa
• Clint Watts' killer zoom room
• Ring Mailbox Sensor
• Masks fuel Etsy surge (via Ben)
• Song Exploder on Netflix